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by Nina Helen Hallstrom, Senior Partnership Officer, ADPP Mozambique What if tuberculosis (TB) were no longer a global health threat, because we finally treated it as a shared responsibility? As we look ahead to the World Conference on Lung Health (WCLH), I believe it’s time to turn a shared risk into a shared investment, and […]
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With Child Deaths Projected to Rise for the First Time This Century, Gates Foundation Urges Global Leaders to Target Scarce Resources Where They Save the Most Lives New Goalkeepers Report models impact of global health funding cuts, offers roadmap of best buys and most effective investments to slow this reversal The number of children dying […]
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At the 2025 Goalkeepers event, Gates Foundation Chair Bill Gates addressed an audience of more than 1,000 global government, community, philanthropy, and private-sector leaders with a stark but hopeful call to action: save millions of children’s lives and make some of the deadliest diseases history by 2045. “Humanity is at a crossroads. With millions of […]
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Today marks the official launch of the second edition of the African Voices of Science (AVoS), a continental initiative led by Speak Up Africa, dedicated to strengthening Africa’s voice and role in global health research, development, and innovation (RD&I). For decades, Africa has been portrayed as a passive recipient of solutions designed elsewhere. This narrative […]
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By Fara Ndiaye, Deputy Executive Director (Speak Up Africa), Dr George Githuka, Program Director (CHReaD), Prof Keitshepile Geoffrey Setswe, Managing Director: Implementation Research Division (Aurum Institute and SAHTAC), Caroline Mbindyo, Chief Innovations Officer (Amref Health Africa) The global health community is facing significant cuts to critical global health research funding. Estimates show global health funding […]
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OverviewOver the next two decades, the Gates Foundation will work together with its partners to make as much progress as possible towards three primary goals: This focus builds on the extraordinary global progress in health and development between 2000 and 2025—a period when child deaths were more than halved, deaths from deadly infectious diseases were […]
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Investments Through 2030 to Catalyze Innovation in Maternal, Menstrual, Gynecological, and Sexual Health for Women Globally The Gates Foundation today announced a $2.5 billion commitment through 2030 to accelerate research and development (R&D) focused exclusively on women’s health. It will support the advancement of more than 40 innovations in five critical, chronically underfunded areas—particularly those […]
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More than 115 agrifood experts, government advisors and business leaders are calling for animal-source foods to be excluded from a UN declaration to eliminate trans-fatty acids. A draft UN declaration to eliminate trans-fatty acids from global diets risks inadvertently denying the world’s poorest the nutritional benefits of milk and meat, experts have said. A new declaration to […]
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Africa’s fight against neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) is gaining ground, with over 80 countries and organizations uniting under the Kigali Declaration to tackle these debilitating conditions. Marking its third anniversary on June 23, 2025, the declaration, launched by Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame, has sparked unprecedented collaboration, securing $1.8 billion in support and driving progress toward […]
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In an exclusive interview with Africa.com, Dr. Paulin Basinga, Director of Health, Nutrition, and Population at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), discussed the critical insights and findings from the 2024 Goalkeepers Report. The annual report, now in its eighth year, serves as a touchstone for evaluating progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) […]
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