While smallholder farmers are facing an increasingly difficult climate, it’s crucial to have climate-resilient resources to improve nutrition and incomes. Learn how an improved tilapia is one example ...

We are a community of passionate optimists who see daunting challenges like disease and hunger and gender inequality and are ready to roll up our sleeves and look for ways to solve them. We are ...

About 3.5 billion people—half of the world’s population—lack access to safe sanitation. In low- and middle-income countries especially, poor sanitation is a massive risk to human health, disrupting ...

For two decades, Dr. Sugandha Arya worked in the sanctuary of a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) filled with fragile newborns. Each day, she and her team at Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi, India, ...

We work with early childhood and technical experts on high-impact assessment tools that measure the quality of learning environments and help educators personalize learning for children from diverse ...

When historians write about the first quarter of the 21st century, I think they may sum it up this way: Twenty years of unprecedented progress followed by five years of stagnation. This is true for ...

As co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates shapes and approves foundation strategies, advocates for the foundation’s issues, and sets the organization’s overall direction. He works ...

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DELFT, Netherlands -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded Delft University of Technology (TU Delft, The Netherlands) a grant to ‘Reinvent the toilet’. Aim of this project is to develop new ...

Depuis 2000, le taux de mortalité des enfants de moins de 5 ans a chuté de pas moins de 51 %, en grande partie grâce aux vaccins. Il serait facile de tenir ces progrès pour acquis, mais j’ai connu de ...

NEW YORK -- It was announced that the International Planned Parenthood Federation, Western Hemisphere Region, Inc. announced today that it has received a $1,730,000 gift from the Bill & Melinda Gates ...