Our priority diseases and conditions are:

Acute Diarrheal Illness

The foundation helps fund work aimed at preventing and treating infectious diarrhea, which contributes to the deaths of 2 million to 3 million young children each year.

Acute Lower Respiratory Infections

Respiratory illnesses like pneumonia kill about 2 million young children every year. The foundation aids efforts to improve diagnosis and develop better vaccines against these common infections.

Child Health

Much of the work on specific diseases supported by the foundation benefits children. In addition, we assist in broader efforts to improve child survival, by supporting efforts to prevent millions of deaths among newborns.

HIV/AIDS

To slow the global spread of HIV, the foundation supports the development of vaccines and other tools and strategies with the potential to prevent tens of millions of infections and deaths. We also fund comprehensive initiatives that include both prevention and treatment.

Malaria

The foundation's grantees are working in many areas to reduce the burden of malaria on the world's poorest countries. Their work includes the development of vaccines to prevent the disease and large-scale efforts to control malaria by making better use of existing tools.

Poor Nutrition

The foundation assists efforts to improve nutrition, including developing foods and crops that are high in essential vitamins and minerals, and ensuring that healthy foods get to those who need them most.

Reproductive and Maternal Health

To improve the health of women in the developing world, the foundation supports efforts to reduce deaths and illness related to pregnancy and prevent unintended pregnancies.

Tuberculosis

The foundation supports work in the prevention and treatment of TB, including the search for improved vaccines, better tools for diagnosis, and new drugs to treat active TB.

Vaccine-Preventable Diseases

The foundation supports the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, an innovative partnership that has helped save hundreds of thousands of lives by increasing the number of children who receive basic vaccines.

Other Infectious Diseases

Developing countries are disproportionately affected by other common diseases, including sexually transmitted infections, infections involving multicellular organisms such as worms, and those caused by parasites transmitted through insects.