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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announces its first major grant to polio eradication and becomes a core partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) – a $100 million challenge to Rotary, promising to match funds raised. Since the GPEI’s formation in 1988, polio eradication efforts have reduced polio cases by 99.9%.
Our methods are based on logic, driven by rigor, results, issues, and outcomes. When Bill and Melinda started the foundation twenty years ago, the world didn’t have a decent estimate of how many people were dying of malaria each year. The data just didn’t exist, nor did a scientific way to collect it.
IHME estimates that extreme poverty has gone up by 7 percent in just a few months because of COVID-19, ending a 20-year streak of progress. Already in 2020, the pandemic has pushed almost 37 million people below the US$1.90 a day extreme poverty line.
In higher-income countries, rotavirus is easily treated, and a vaccine is available. Stirred by this gross inequity in access to health care, Bill and Melinda resolved to devote themselves to addressing such issues, leading them to establish their foundation. The foundation began working in India in 2003 with the launch of Avahan, an HIV ...
At a glance. Since making our first grants in South Africa in 1999, we have been committed to addressing issues such as the country’s high rates of HIV and tuberculosis (TB), social inequality, and inadequate water and sanitation infrastructure. South Africa has less than 1 percent of the world’s population, but it accounts for 18 percent ...
Explore the Data. Each year the Goalkeepers Report publishes the most recent data on the 18 global indicators most closely related to the foundation’s work. These indicators provide a roadmap for measuring progress toward the Global Goals. Throughout the pandemic, there have been some marked setbacks as well as some remarkable bright spots.
GHIT is a public-private partnership that directs Japanese innovation and investment toward developing health technologies and solutions that can benefit low- and middle-income countries. Japan is the world’s fourth-largest donor of development aid, and is likely to play an increasingly important role in global health following the response ...
