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      • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
        Maternal health
        Low-cost health measures could drive big fall in maternal mortality, says report

        Lives of 2mn mothers and babies could be saved by 2030 with small innovations in care, says Gates Foundation

        A doctor checks up a pregnant woman at a government hospital in Amritsar
      • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
        Disease control and prevention
        Gates Foundation and Wellcome fund $550mn trial of first new TB vaccine for 100 years

        Large-scale study will test GSK’s jab in 26,000 people in Africa and south-east Asia

        A mobile TB clinic in Kondoa District, Tanzania
      • Sunday, 16 April, 2023
        Biotech
        Gates Foundation makes unusual investment in experimental cancer trial

        Smart Immune is developing technology it hopes will help patients rebuild their immune systems

      • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
        FT Alphaville
        Bill Gates loves trash

        A big $28bn bet on a dirty future

      • Tuesday, 20 December, 2022
        InterviewBill Gates
        Elon Musk’s Twitter is ‘stirring up’ digital polarisation, says Bill Gates

        ‘Seat-of-the-pants’ management of social media platform worries Microsoft co-founder

        Bill Gates
      • Wednesday, 7 December, 2022
        HTSIHow To Give It 2022
        Melinda French Gates’s $15bn vision

        The philanthropist has already helped distribute more than $65.6bn. Now she wants to pool resources with the world’s wealthiest to make systems change at massive scale. Exclusive interview

        Melinda French Gates in the Gates Foundation’s Seattle office
      • Tuesday, 13 September, 2022
        Interview
        Bill Gates warns Ukraine war is sapping Europe’s foreign aid budgets

        Largest philanthropic fund says world ‘on track to achieve almost none’ of UN development goals

        Bill Gates
      • Wednesday, 13 July, 2022
        Bill Gates
        Bill Gates donates another $20bn to his charitable foundation

        World’s fourth-richest man plans to boost annual distributions by 50% and warns of ‘huge global setbacks’

        Business magnate and philanthropist Bill Gates pictured in Idaho, US, this month
      • Tuesday, 19 April, 2022
        Melinda French Gates
        Helping informal women workers is key to jump-starting recovery

        We have a rare opportunity to understand and fix the economic neglect of these individuals

        A female farmer picks her crops in Basudevpur, India. In Africa and India, as many as nine in 10 working women are in informal jobs
      • Monday, 31 January, 2022
        Andrew Trister
        How to bridge the digital divide in healthcare

        With the right tools and governance, we can empower the communities that will benefit most from digital innovation

      • Wednesday, 26 January, 2022
        Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans massive giving expansion

        Annual spending jumps to $6.7bn as foundation overhauls governance following co-chairs’ divorce

        Melinda French Gates and Bill Gates
      • Tuesday, 18 January, 2022
        Bill Gates
        Bill Gates warns of pandemics potentially far worse than Covid

        Philanthropist calls on governments to contribute billions to tackle future pathogens and increase vaccine supplies

        Bill Gates
      • Wednesday, 8 September, 2021
        Drugs research
        UK start-up uses AI to design antiviral pills to prevent pandemics

        Exscientia’s drug development programme secures funding from Gates Foundation

        Andrew Hopkins, chief executive of Exscientia
      • Sunday, 18 July, 2021
        Health sector
        Soros and Gates back buyout of UK diagnostic technology group

        Mologic will be turned into a social enterprise for testing tropical diseases

      • Sunday, 11 July, 2021
        The Big Read
        The political awakening of Melinda French Gates

        The philanthropist has shifted from an intensely private figure to a leader comfortable in the spotlight

      • Wednesday, 7 July, 2021
        Gates Foundation makes contingency plans for break-up

        Deal unveiled by philanthropic giant would give Melinda French Gates option of going it alone

        Melinda French Gates and Bill Gates
      • Wednesday, 30 June, 2021
        Gates Foundation pledges to donate $2.1bn to women’s causes

        First major initiative announced since philanthropic juggernaut was roiled by marital split

        Bill and Melinda Gates in 2018
      • Wednesday, 23 June, 2021
        Warren Buffett resigns as trustee of Gates Foundation

        Move comes at tumultuous time for charity after Bill and Melinda Gates announce divorce

        Warren Buffett, right, with Bill Gates in 2017
      • Friday, 28 May, 2021
        Gates foundation considers governance changes following divorce filing

        Billionaire couple’s pending split could alter way the charitable group operates

        Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates
      • Monday, 17 May, 2021
        Bill Gates
        Bill Gates says investigation into affair ‘in no way related’ to leaving Microsoft board

        Tech company reviewed relationship between co-founder and an employee

        Bill Gates
      • Sunday, 9 May, 2021
        Philanthropy
        ‘Spousal support not needed’: how billionaire women are reshaping philanthropy

        As Melinda Gates petitions for divorce, charities scramble to respond to gender, generational and strategic shifts

      • Friday, 7 May, 2021
        Jennifer Petriglieri
        The Gates divorce shows the messy reality for couples who work together

        Sustaining both a romantic and professional relationship is hard graft

        Bill and Melinda Gates said they no longer believe they ‘can grow together’ but will continue to ‘work together to shape and approve foundation strategies’
      • Tuesday, 4 May, 2021
        Explainer
        Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation faces uncertain governance after split

        Memos insist ‘business as usual’ at philanthropic organisation despite founders heading for divorce

      • Tuesday, 4 May, 2021
        InterviewCompanies21 min
        Melinda Gates: vaccines, inequality and caregiving

        Gates tells FT editor Roula Khalaf that women have lost $800bn of income in the pandemic

      • Tuesday, 4 May, 2021
        Bill Gates
        Bill and Melinda Gates to end marriage after 27 years

        Couple say they will continue to work together at their charitable foundation

        Melinda and Bill Gates in 2019
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