Disease, conflict, and suffering thrive on poverty. Our global development programs create opportunities for people, communities, and countries to build wealth and invest in their futures. We work to ...

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Twenty-five years ago, Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates saw an opportunity to reduce inequity in health globally and in education in the United States. Guided by the belief that all people, no ...

Women in Africa are more likely to be working than women in other regions, and almost 50% of women in the non-agricultural labor force are entrepreneurs. It is the only region in which women are more ...

Gagandeep “Cherry” Kang is a physician-scientist who leads the foundation’s efforts to address enteric and diarrheal diseases, including by supporting work on diagnostics, genomics, epidemiology, and ...

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I am pleased to share the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's 2015 Annual Report with our friends and partners. Our complete audited financial statements are available on gatesfoundation.org. This was ...