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 ...

SEATTLE -- A pilot initiative announced today by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will help public libraries in seven states secure faster Internet connections so more people can access a full ...

When a mother dies during childbirth, the future dies with her. The world doesn’t just lose everything she is and will be. We also—all too often—lose her child. The chance of a baby reaching their ...

To expand access to digital financial services so people in the lowest-income communities around the globe can build security and prosperity for themselves, their families, and their communities.

We provide financial and technical support to our Chinese partners and build bridges to international cooperation to help them accelerate product, technology, and systems innovation in health, ...

Cambrie Nelson leads the office that oversees the Gender Equality Division’s business operations, cross-division strategy, and leadership engagement. She serves as a trusted advisor to the division’s ...

We are data people, and this is a data report. Sort of. In 2015, leaders from 193 countries agreed to the Sustainable Development Goals—the SDGs. These were big, bold objectives we wanted to achieve ...

Tachi Yamada, president of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Health Program, issued the following statement to mark the launch of MenAfriVac—a new vaccine against Meningitis Group A—in ...

From early childhood, we each saw how our parents helped out in our local communities, and we were taught that anything is possible. Unfortunately, factors outside of anyone’s control make it hard for ...

In the early 2000s, we saw huge progress in the health of mothers and their children around the world. But that progress has lagged in recent years—maternal and newborn deaths remain stubbornly high.

To support farmers and governments in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia that are seeking a sustainable, inclusive agricultural transformation—one that creates economic opportunity, respects limits on ...