In October 2006, the original trustees of the foundation, Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett, created a two-entity structure. One entity, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ...

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 ...

The foundation’s Family Planning team works to ensure that women and girls can access the contraceptives and family planning services they want and thus exercise their right to decide whether to have ...

I am deeply disturbed by news reports that the U.S. Administration is considering withdrawing its support for Gavi. If true, and if Congress allows this to happen, the impacts will be devastating, ...

Survey collectors asked 200,000 women in Kenya and Nigeria to share their economic desires for themselves, their family, and their future. Here’s what we learned, and what’s standing in their way.

Disease, conflict, and suffering thrive on poverty. Our global development programs create opportunities for people, communities, and countries to build wealth and invest in their futures. We work to ...

Women and girls often face obstacles that make it impossible for them to lead the lives they dream of. Our gender equality programs focus on removing those obstacles by expanding access to good health ...

To support the production of independent journalism to raise awareness in the UK around global health security and engage audiences in solutions, greater research, and cooperation.

Most lifesaving vaccines are delivered with a needle and syringe. And in lower-resource settings, these were often reused which risked the spread of blood-borne diseases such as HIV and hepatitis B.

To fund research on collaboration mechanisms for climate action by multilateral development banks, national development banks, & vertical climate and environment funds. These include co-financing ...

This grant will focus attention of the international medical community on cholera and other diarrheal diseases. It will build capacity and enhance professional development of scientists in this field ...

to evaluate the enzymatic options for lowering the cost of the HIV anti-retroviral MK-8527 active pharmaceutical ingredient synthesis, which fill facilitate the future generic market entry of MK-8527 ...