Dr. Zolelwa Sifumba overcame MDR-TB and now fights to raise awareness, reduce stigma, and strengthen TB prevention. Discover her story and advocacy.

The Gates Foundation has committed an additional $2.5 billion to invest in women's health through 2030. Learn some of the ...

Rob Nabors leads the team that manages our work with government relations, policy, advocacy, and communications in North America. His team, based in Washington, D.C. and Seattle, WA, develops and ...

William H. Gates Sr. (d. 2020) guided the vision and strategic direction of the foundation and served as an advocate for the foundation’s key issues.

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, ...

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 ...

The world's worst child health crisis is malnutrition. Climate change is making it even harder to solve. To protect the world’s children from hunger’s worst effects, we must invest in global health.

The Future of Progress Halfway into the Sustainable Development Goals era, it’s time to change our approach.

The Guardian today has launched a new website in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help focus the world's attention on global development. The site will provide a new space for ...

We share two values that are a big part of why we started our foundation. Both of us were taught to give back and to be optimistic about the future.

The remarkable sweetpotato is one of many supercharged crops that can grow despite a changing climate. Farmers are adapting to climate change with it.

Our goal is 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 ...