Before she became a trusted voice in her community’s fight against tuberculosis and other infectious diseases, Nandipha Titana was a shy young woman—quiet, but drawn to helping others. While ...

Access to formal credit is a vital economic resource that many of us in the Global North take for granted. We borrow money not only to afford expensive items, but also to invest in businesses, ...

Getting a vaccine can take just seconds. But long before a health worker nurse puts a needle in your arm, that vaccine has already traveled a remarkable distance—from research labs to clinical trials ...

Digital public infrastructure (DPI) is foundational, re-usable digital building blocks—such as digital payments, ID, and data sharing—designed for the public benefit. DPI spans the entire economy, ...

Gagandeep “Cherry” Kang is a physician-scientist who leads the foundation’s efforts to address enteric and diarrheal diseases, including by supporting work on diagnostics, genomics, epidemiology, and ...

New modeling shows 40 million more children will suffer from hunger’s worst effects by 2050 due to climate change, but immediate action could instead boost health, spur economic growth The Goalkeepers ...

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When I look at financials, I see within the columns and rows of numbers the story of an organization. If you spend enough time with the data, it starts to tell you not just what the organization does, ...

As impatient optimists, one question we constantly come back to at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is: What’s Next? However much progress is made, whatever achievements are celebrated, we remain ...

Bill Gates recently announced that the Gates Foundation would spend $200 billion in the next 20 years. Since we were created 25 years ago, we have spent $100 billion. I feel extraordinarily fortunate ...

I am pleased to share the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s 2014 Annual Report with our friends and partners. Our complete audited financial statements are available on gatesfoundation.org. This is ...

to test the effect of nutritional intervention to prevent TB in household contacts of TB patients in Indonesia and Tanzania ...