Ndidi Nwuneli is determined to tackle the challenge of hidden hunger. The first step, she says, is to dispel the myth that Africans can’t help themselves. And the next step…
The International AIDS Conference is the largest conference on any global health issue in the world and first convened in 1985, at the height of the epidemic. What makes this…
On May 8, an Ebola virus outbreak was reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Scott Dowell shares what we’ve learned and how that can help in the fight…
The results of a new study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, found that the rate of childhood mortality following a mass administration of azithromycin dropped by a…
Yes, it has. In all of history, we have eradicated just one human infectious disease—smallpox in 1978. Forty years later, we’re incredibly close to doing it again with polio. In…
Prime Minister Modi announced a plan to eliminate tuberculosis in India by 2025. With more people dying of TB in India than anywhere else in the world, this is a…
This is the number-one question I get from our partners in government, academia, and the private sector. I’ll start by repeating two key principles of the Gates Foundation, because they…
Global HIV infections have fallen for the past two decades, but addressing the challenges that young women in sub-Saharan Africa face will be critical if we want to maintain progress.
South Sudan has stopped transmission of Guinea worm—zero cases in 15 months—signifying a major success in efforts to eradicate the disease, a horribly painful parasite that can trap families and…
