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There’s no denying: this is a global health crisis. Between the U.S. cuts and other funding cuts, in total, aid in total has ...
Kenya’s success with a new post-partum hemorrhage protocol could improve maternal health care across Africa and beyond.
The Global Summit: Health & Prosperity through Immunisation sees a record number of donors pledge towards Gavi, the Vaccine ...
Channeling grief into action. Today, Nneka is a trailblazer in her own right. She is the CEO of mDoc, a health tech company she co-founded in Lagos, Nigeria, to help people across Africa living with ...
Looking back, McLean and Ngufor are amazed that IG2 made it through its many pitfalls and setbacks—including failed first trials. (Researchers eventually realized they had to change testing protocols ...
This article originally appeared on Economist.com. When historians write about the first quarter of the 21st century, they may sum it up this way: 20 years of unprecedented progress followed by five ...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed to spending $8.6 billion in 2024 to help meet mounting needs and fund innovative ways to save and improve lives. Many philanthropists are stepping up, ...
Rural women farmers might be the world’s most extraordinary unsung agents of change when it comes to climate resilience. These women make up nearly half the world’s agricultural workforce and produce ...
Foreword by Gail Rodgers. This is a story about how change happens in public health. Specifically, it’s a story about how a lifesaving vaccine called PCV became available to all children in India—and ...
By the end of this decade, climate shocks alone could drive 132 million more people into extreme poverty; by 2050, the risk of hunger and malnutrition could rise by 20%.For every child who succumbs to ...
On foundation’s 25th anniversary, Bill Gates outlines ambitious goals, inspiration for donating most of his resources and new timeline to spend-down by 2045 “There are too many urgent problems to ...