Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announces $1.27B to improve healthcare

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced commitments totalling $1.27 billion to improve and save millions of lives. About $912 million has been pledged to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis

(TB) and malaria. The funding will help accelerate efforts to end HIV,

TB, and malaria by 2030 and build resilient health systems needed to protect against future pandemics. It also will be instrumental in reducing the disproportionate impact of these diseases on women and girls. The funding will address overlapping global crises that have reversed the progress already made toward achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (Global Goals). The foundation’s sixth annual Goalkeepers Report notes that nearly every indicator of the Global Goals is off track at the halfway point for achieving them by 2030.