By Elohor Igbru The largest humanitarian organisation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation today announced its largest-ever annual budget in its bid to tackle inequality, poverty and to bridge the gap in development funding caused by the Covid-19 pandemic around the world. Announcing the budget of $8.3 billion for the year ...
By Mark Suzman During the COVID-19 pandemic, the remarkable, unprecedented progress made over the previous two decades in global health and development has stalled, and in many cases even reversed. Sadly, instead of accelerating efforts to fight infectious diseases, help reduce extreme poverty, advance gender equality, and address the effects ...
By Taiwo Ajala Smallholder farmers across the world would soon receive the help they need to address the immediate and long-term impacts of climate change after the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation promised to support initiatives with a pledge of $1.4 billion. The CEO of the Foundation, Mark Suzman said ...
By Victor Emeruwa The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) alongside governments and private sector have announced new funding commitments totaling $1.27 billion which will aim to accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, (SDGs) and save millions of lives. During United Nations General Assembly week, the Bill & ...
By Adeyemi Olusoga The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ( BMGF) has announced four global leaders as winners of its 2022 Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards. The winners, described as “ four remarkable changemakers” towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in their communities and around the world, were announced in a ...
Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates also call on leaders to keep commitments to world's poorest and invest in innovation, ingenuity to continue saving millions of lives By Victor Emeruwa The hopes of meeting the Sustainable Development Goals by the set time of 2030 may now by unachievable as every indicator points to the fact that the world is off-track in meeting the ...
By Melinda French Gates On a visit to Senegal and Rwanda in June—my first trip to Africa since the pandemic began—I encountered example after example of African-born innovation. Among them: A rural university training the next generation of global health professionals. A business turning discarded tires from mosquito breeding grounds ...
By Ademola Adeleye Religious leaders in the country are set to support programs that will encourage improved Maternal and Infant Young Child Nutrition indices in the country. Faith leaders made this commitment during advocacy visits by the Accelerating Nutrition Results in Nigeria (ANRiN) project working with the Centre for Communication ...
By Our Reporter To reach millions more people in need of health care services, Nigeria must increase funding for its Primary Health Care Services. This increase funding could also leverage on government resources and the private sector. The Country Director, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ( BMGF), Dr. Jeremie Zoungrana, ...
Bill and Melinda Gates From Elohor Igbru, Abuja The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today took a giant leap in improving the Foundation’s governance and global impacts by announcing the appointment into its Board of Trustee, four new members who will help shape the foundation’s governance and increase impact. The ...
