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How Bill and Melinda Gates Are Transforming Life for Billions in the 21st Century
The Gates Foundation is transforming the lives of billions of people—but it wouldn’t be the force it has become without the distinctive visions of the couple behind it.
It was March 2018, and once more Bill Gates found himself behind a podium. In the previous few months, he had given one keynote address after another—in San Francisco, he’d urged drugmakers to focus on diseases that affect the poor as well as the rich; in Andhra Pradesh, India, he had preached the value of smallholder farms; in Abu Dhabi, he’d enjoined the Crown Prince and other princelings to continue their financial support for global health initiatives; in Cleveland, he’d promoted investment in better schools.
Now the world’s second-richest man and foremost itinerant advocate for the poor was in Abuja, Nigeria, talking about the same theme that had underlain all of these speeches: the need to invest in “human capital.” Among those gathered at the conference center, in the shadow of the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, was the Nigerian President himself, Muhammadu Buhari, and what seemed like the entire seat of government, from legislative mandarins to a full house of governors and business leaders—all primed to hear from a man who had, so far, lavished the country with $1.6 billion in grants through his eponymous foundation.
Gates Foundation Commits $375 Million for Family Planning Through 2020
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced a commitment of $375 million over three years in support of Family Planning 2020 — a global public-private partnership working to provide an additional hundred and twenty million women and girls with access to effective contraception by 2020.
Announced at the Family Planning Summit 2017, which the Gates Foundation is co-hosting this week in London, the funding will support efforts to improve supply chains and the availability of contraceptives in sixty-nine target countries, with about $250 million to be earmarked for efforts targeting adolescent girls and the particular challenges they face. The commitment represents a 60 percent increase in the foundation's funding for family planning, the Guardian reports.
At least thirty-seven governments, sixteen private companies, and eleven multilateral and civil society organizations and private foundations are expected to announce commitments totaling $2.5 billion at the summit. The majority of the funding ($1.5 billion) has been committed by countries in Asia and Africa, including Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, India, Indonesia, and Uganda. In addition, a new bridge funding mechanism will enable UNFPA Supplies, the world's largest provider of contraceptives, to accelerate the procurement process, shrink the cost of contraceptives, and reduce stock-outs by up to 50 percent. Nonprofit organizations announcing new commitments include Americares, Blue Ventures, and the International Rescue Committee.
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