While smallholder farmers are facing an increasingly difficult climate, it’s crucial to have climate-resilient resources to improve nutrition and incomes. Learn how an improved tilapia is one example ...

We are a community of passionate optimists who see daunting challenges like disease and hunger and gender inequality and are ready to roll up our sleeves and look for ways to solve them. We are ...

About 3.5 billion people—half of the world’s population—lack access to safe sanitation. In low- and middle-income countries especially, poor sanitation is a massive risk to human health, disrupting ...

For two decades, Dr. Sugandha Arya worked in the sanctuary of a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) filled with fragile newborns. Each day, she and her team at Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi, India, ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced a $22 million investment in the NewSchools Venture Fund to increase the number of high-quality charter schools around the country ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When historians write about the first quarter of the 21st century, I think they may sum it up this way: Twenty years of unprecedented progress followed by five years of stagnation. This is true for ...

This database includes grant commitments made by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and previous foundations of the Gates family (William H. Gates Foundation, Gates Library Foundation, and Gates ...

Our organization was founded on a simple premise—that people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live a healthy, productive life. In 2021, we published our ...

ABUJA, Nigeria -- AIDS Prevention Initiative in Nigeria (APIN), funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and directed by the Harvard School of Public Health in collaboration with the Kennedy ...