During the first 25 years of the Gates Foundation, we gave away more than $100 billion. Over the next two decades, we will ...

A Ugandan scientist is engineering beans to thrive despite drought, pests, and shorter growing seasons—one crossbreed at a ...

Explore 25 years of progress in global health, education, and equity—and discover the stories shaping our future.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Why did Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates start the foundation? Foundation Chair Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates believe that all lives have equal value and they have always been determined to ...

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 ...

BOSTON -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will give nearly $45 million to Harvard Medical School to develop a replicable model for controlling multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Hundreds ...