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The Story of Florence
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Why I care about saving lives.
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For most of the country’s history, malaria was an American problem—until a range of public health tools helped us eliminate it.
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In Tanzania, scientists have created a revolutionary mosquito that is incapable of transmitting malaria.
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Malaria spreads between mosquitoes and humans in a vicious cycle, but a combination of innovative tools and targeted efforts can help us fig...
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Bill Gates highlights VectorCam, an app that can tell instantly whether a mosquito might be carrying malaria. It's a key step in eradicating...
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A highly invasive urban-dwelling mosquito that has migrated from South Asia and the Arabian Peninsula is one of the biggest threats to malar...
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Get a tour of “Mosquito City,” the world’s largest captive colony of mosquitoes used for researching ways to combat malaria and other mosqui...
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Finding ways to protect soldiers from the mosquito—the world’s deadliest animal—is a top priority at the U.S. Department of Defense’s Walter...
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Inside a two-story brick building in Medellín, Colombia, scientists are breeding millions and millions of mosquitoes. They release them acro...
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Mosquitoes use their sense of smell to find new victims. A Swiss fragrance company called dsm-firmenich is hoping to thwart them.
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Everyone knows mosquitoes have a taste for blood, but did you know they have an even bigger sweet tooth? Mosquitoes love sugar. Exploiting t...
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The West African country of Benin this year launched an innovative program to distribute bed nets, one of the most effective tools to help s...
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Dr. Mara Lawniczak is a leading evolutionary geneticist who is helping the fight against malaria by studying the genomes of mosquitoes.
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In addition to her innovative field research, Dr. Damaris Matoke-Muhia is working to open the doors to women in community-level initiatives ...
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America’s health aid has been saving lives. Cutting it now is a huge mistake.
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Meet Agnes Nambozo, who goes to mind-blowing lengths—and heights!—to vaccinate children in her community.
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"Are we going to lose lives to malaria again?" Dr. Damaris Matoke-Muhia explains what she thought when she heard the U.S. would cut health a...
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Meet David, a Kenyan man whose life was destroyed by TB. He got healthy thanks to U.S. aid--but cuts to that aid put many lives at risk.
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Meet Annet, an HIV-positive mother in Kenya who no longer gets AIDS treatment for herself and her child because of cuts to U.S. aid.
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Wendo Sahar wants to fight HIV in her home country. Aid cuts are making that harder.
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Years ago, I told you about this amazing woman's lifesaving work. Now aid cuts are putting it in jeopardy.
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America's generosity pays to vaccinate children. We shouldn't stop now.
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Cutting polio funding will mean more than 100,000 kids are paralyzed every year.
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America helps diagnose and treat TB cases around the world. If we stop doing that, we'll see at least 2 million additional deaths.
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Cutting PEPFAR will cost millions of lives.
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American aid protects kids from HIV. If we cut it, more of them will die.
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South Africa has had a great partnership with American's anti-HIV program. Aid cuts are putting 600,000 lives at risk.
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Of all the preventable causes of death in children, the world has made the most progress in the last two decades on diarrheal diseases.
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Agnes Nambozo goes to extraordinary lengths to vaccinate children in Uganda.
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This chart—which shows the huge drop in child mortality since 2000—still blows my mind. In this video I explain why.
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I sat down with best-selling author, fellow global health enthusiast, and my friend John Green to talk about his book Everything Is Tubercul...
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Over the past 25 years, Gavi has saved 19 million lives. Everywhere I go, I’m making the case that there is no better investment in our futu...
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This quick video shows what it takes to keep vaccines cold all the way to wherever they’re delivered. It’s impressive work!
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A new synthetic lung surfactant could help premature babies breathe—and survive—without tubes, trauma, or intensive care.
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During the first 25 years of the Gates Foundation, we gave away more than $100 billion. Over the next two decades, we will double our giving...
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On another great trip to India, the Gates Foundation marked our 25th anniversary with leaders and long-time partners in the country.
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During a recent visit to Delhi, I met with three women who are using drones to boost their income and India’s agricultural productivity.
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Fonio has been feeding families in West Africa for more than 5,000 years, longer than any other cultivated grain on the continent. Thanks to...
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I planted drought-tolerant seeds, fed and weighed chickens, and used a mobile phone to monitor weather forecasts and local crop prices. Thes...
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I spoke with Vaclav Smil about the staggering reality of global food production: We grow enough to feed everybody but waste over a third of ...
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How CGIAR is feeding our future
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At the World Health Summit in Berlin, we talked about all the promising tools we have to improve global health and save lives.
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A new wave of long-acting HIV preventatives has the potential to transform the fight against HIV/AIDS. By providing strong protection withou...
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Seeing the athleticism and passion on display during the World Cup the last month, I understand why soccer has earned the nickname “the beau...
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Strength in numbers
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It’s easy to take mobile money for granted, but it’s transforming economies and changing lives in Africa.
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Around the world, DPI—or digital public infrastructure—is changing the way countries serve their people, respond to crises, and grow their e...
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I dropped Lego off the roof of this building, because who doesn’t love smashing Lego?
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The world has made amazing progress on malaria in the past 20 years. But climate change threatens to slow or even reverse that progress. Her...
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Earlier this year, I made my first trip ever to Pakistan to learn more about the country’s incredible efforts to wipe out polio. Their energ...
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Since the start of the global eradication effort in 1988, the number of polio cases worldwide has fallen 99.9 percent. Much of the credit fo...
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The iron lung was one of the greatest tools to fight against one of the worst outcomes of polio. Today, it’s the iron will of the thousands ...
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Meeting the Musahar
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Eating well is a highlight of any trip to Rome. This time, I got to try some of CGIAR's innovations that are helping fight malnutrition.
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I loved being in India last week, and I wanted to share a few photos and videos—and some thoughts on why it’s so inspiring to be there. I ca...
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The Jaga Mission is transforming slums in India into thriving communities. Thanks for the incredible visit!
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It was great to visit the Indian Agricultural Research Institute and learn about how they’re developing climate-smart crops in India.
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India is changing the world with breakthrough ideas—as it has for centuries. Here are a few of the ones I'm looking forward to seeing when I...
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In Senegal I got to meet some brilliant researchers who are working on ways to use AI to help the world’s poorest people.
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Brazil’s journey in healthcare and development is inspiring. From lifting people out of poverty to cutting child mortality, the country can ...
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The results of India’s commitment to stopping measles are stunning.
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As big as the problems facing the world are right now, my visit to India last week reminded me that our capacity to solve them is even bigge...
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More than 670,000 children die from pneumonia ever year. A powerful new vaccine candidate in development is designed to protect children fro...
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Guinea worm once infected 3.5 million people every year. Thanks to heroes like Makoy, that number dropped to 13 last year.
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You may want to skip lunch—and probably avoid sushi for dinner—when visiting the world’s foremost museum of parasites in Tokyo. At the quirk...
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Mass Drug Administration in Tanzania
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Record Breaking Generosity
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Neglected No More
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From 1990 to 2019, the world cut child mortality by more than half. It’s one of the most important things humanity has ever done. In this vi...
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This AI-powered ultrasound machine could help save mothers and children around the world.
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Nest 360 is doing incredible work to end preventable newborn deaths in African hospitals.
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In Uganda, the maternal mortality rate is double the global average—at least. Eva Nangalo, a midwife from the country’s Nakaseke District, h...
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I know that child mortality is an awful thing to think about. But “why do children die” is one of the most important questions ever, because...
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The goal of no more pandemics ever is ambitious, but the progress we’ve made over the last two years—including the huge leaps forward we’ve ...
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Vaccines are amazing—but they can be even better. In this video I explain what’s on the cutting edge of immunization.
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If we’re going to make COVID-19 the last pandemic, the world needs to get to work right away on three key areas.
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We need a permanent organization of experts who are fully paid and prepared to mount a coordinated response to a dangerous outbreak at any t...
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Sofonias Tessema is the program lead for the Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative at the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. S...
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For most people, the highly effective mRNA COVID-19 vaccines made by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech seemed to come out of the blue. But these n...
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As COVID-19 swept across South Africa, one of the most pressing needs was access to public health information. But UNICEF, in partnership wi...
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Even as the world seeks to end the current COVID-19 pandemic, we need to also be thinking about how to prevent future pandemics. That’s just...
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If there’s ever been a time that we need heroes, it’s now. The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented health and economic challenges, e...
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As COVID-19 spreads across Africa, hospitals across the continent face shortages of basic medical supplies needed to treat the respiratory d...
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The virus that causes COVID-19 is mutating. Here is what you should know if you want to understand how variants are (and aren’t) complicatin...
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When it comes to killing humans, no other animal—not sharks, snakes, or crocodiles—is as deadly as the mosquito. But in the fight against de...
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A year ago, many people feared that COVID-19 disruptions to malaria control and treatment would lead a dramatic increase in malaria deaths. ...
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I explored the hidden history of Brussels’ sewage system—and the role of wastewater in global health—for World Toilet Day.
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Ten years ago, our foundation challenged the world to reinvent the toilet. The world has responded with the power of innovation, developing ...
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Indias war on human waste
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Sanitation Showcase
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Smells of Success
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Omni Processor in Senegal
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I recently got to check out the Omniprocessor, an ingenious machine designed and built by Janicki Bioenergy, which turns human waste into wa...
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Data tells us which low- and middle-income countries have great health programs. But we’ve never really understood what made them so good—un...
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Mosquitoes are out biting every night, infecting millions of people with malaria—a disease that kills a child every other minute of every da...
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Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance works with governments to make sure that every child has access to the lifesaving vaccines they need.
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A new surveillance program in the Seattle area is detecting cases of COVID-19 and helping guide public health responses.
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Humankind has never had a more urgent task than creating broad immunity for coronavirus.
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Exploring Dollar Street
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William Wu changed his career to help the poor
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Why I love fertilizer
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Fixing flaws in photosynthesis could help boost productivity of our most important crops.
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My friend Aliko Dangote and I are working together to fight malnutrition.
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The Future of Farming
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Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture
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Why I Would Raise Chickens Share
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FarmBeats: More data, better farms
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What kangaroos can teach us about saving lives
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Max Roser three facts everyone should know
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The big chill
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Almost Zero: Malaria Elimination in Swaziland
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Nobody Likes Mosquitoes
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Lunchtime in Africa
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Mosquito Wars
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Bill Gates visited the Bread Lab in Washington state where researchers are doing new things with one of the world’s oldest staple foods.
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Join Bill Gates on his trip to visit an Australian Agriculture Company (AACo) facility in Australia where they focus on using data and techn...
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Strong coffee, stronger women
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Lets Make TB History
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There are about a dozen different diseases that are spread to humans by mosquito bites including dengue, yellow fever, Zika, chikungunya, an...
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South Africa: Virtually There
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The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is a tragedy but as awful as this epidemic has been, the next one could be much worse.
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How Dinosaurs Could Help Us Fight Malnutrition
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Eradicating Malaria in a Generation
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Love Life of Plants Cornell University
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An Eye for Innovation Imagine Cup 2014
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Why Does Hunger Still Exist Africas Table Day One
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Fortifying the Future Africa's Table: Day Two
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Increasing Awesome John Green Africas Table Day 5
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Why I Gave Blood to Defeat Dengue Mosquito Week
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Outsmarting Mosquitoes Prosper Chaki Mosquito Week
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What It Takes to Kill Malaria Mosquito Week
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Mosquito Week 2014
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World AIDS Day 2012
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MDGs Dream with a Deadline
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When Bill Gates went to India recently, he got an update on the country's progress with making more-affordable vaccines and more-productive ...
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Behind the Scenes at the Vaccine Summit
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Ghana: Mobile Technology for Global Health
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Mozambique: Mobile Technology for Global Health
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The River of Myths
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Turning the Corner on Polio in 2012
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World Polio Day A Day to Learn Act Donate
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Partnering With Bono On Foreign Aid
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France Committed to Aid
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Innovations In Polio Mapping
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HIV AIDS Avahan
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Urban Health Initiative
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The Serum Institute of India
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Bill Gates goes to India at least once a year to see the progress of the work the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is doing there.
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Zambia On the Front Lines Waging War Against HIV and Malaria
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Ethiopia: Exciting Innovations in Agriculture and Health
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A Simple Advance in Crop Storage Aids Poor Farmers in Africa
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Charting a Course to End Malaria
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David Oshinsky, the author of "Polio: An American Story" reflects on the history of polio and the final push needed for eradication.
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Bills Annual Letter End Polio Now
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Going the Last Mile in India
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Bills Annual Letter A Health Emergency
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Nigeria Advances the Fight against Polio
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Seeing Self Help in Action in India
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Simple Advances Amazing Benefits in Africa
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Bill Gates traveled to India to see how new investments by the Indian government are improving medical care in poor communities.
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