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When COVID-19 accelerated digital transformation globally, it highlighted the difference between strong and weak digital infrastructure. Countries have a narrow window to ensure they have digital ...

Explore 25 years of progress in global health, education, and equity—and discover the stories shaping our future.

David Sotto leads strategy development and business operations for the Women’s Health Innovations team, which works to advance women’s health R&D in contraception, gynecological care, and infectious ...

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Edwige Fortier oversees advocacy efforts to increase attention to and funding for four global health multilateral organizations that the foundation supports: the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, ...

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 ...

To address climate catastrophe, reducing emissions is not enough. New solutions must help smallholder farmers and families adapt to a changing world.

This article was originally published on Gates Notes. When I first began thinking about how to give away my wealth, I did what I always do when I start a new project: I read a lot of books. I read ...

ADDIS ABABA (June 2, 2025) – In an address today in Nelson Mandela Hall at the African Union, Gates Foundation Chair Bill Gates urged African leaders to seize the moment to accelerate progress in ...

Melinda French Gates spotlights some of the people and voices guiding the foundation’s $460 million investment in economic mobility and opportunity in the United States.