Devex: Q&A: Bill and Melinda Gates expand on 3 surprises from annual letter “The time is now to ensure women have a stake in their financial future, according to Bill and Melinda Gates. The idea that mobile phones are most powerful in the hands of the poorest women is one…

Washington Post: ‘Africa hangs in the balance’: Bill Gates on why the continent is so important “On Sunday, Bill Gates, the creator of the ubiquitous Microsoft Windows and now a global philanthropist, addressed the nations of the African Union at their annual summit and urged them to invest more in…

Center for Strategic & International Studies: Global Health Policy Center Monthly Update In the February 2019 CSIS Global Health Policy Center Newsletter, J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice president of CSIS and director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center (GHPC), highlights recent publications, podcast episodes, and upcoming events hosted by…

Scientific American: We Need to Stop Drug-Resistant Malaria at Its Source, Right Now Colin Ohrt, founding director of Consortium for Health Action “Global investments in malaria control and elimination are now at risk of being rapidly reversed. … Despite large investments and recent success in driving down overall rates of…

Leadership: Routine Immunization: Nigeria To Receive $75m Incentive From Gates Foundation “The federal government, represented jointly by the ministers of Budget and National Planning, Finance, and Health, [on Tuesday], announced a new innovative financing agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This, the ministers said, was aimed at strengthening…

CNN: Melinda Gates: Why women’s and children’s health is at risk around the world Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation “…Collectively, the [Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI); Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi); the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (Global Fund); and the Global…

Business Day: EXCLUSIVE: Bill Gates keeps pushing for disease-free world amid growing skepticism “On the face of it, the timing could hardly seem to have been worse for Bill Gates. The billionaire founder of technology company Microsoft, known now for his philanthropy through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was…

Bloomberg: Bill Gates on Global Health Initiatives, Technology, Innovation (Lacqua, 1/23). CNBC: Bill Gates: My ‘best investment’ turned $10 billion into $200 billion worth of economic benefit (Belvedere, 1/23). Financial Times: South Africa’s drug ATMs offer formula to treat chronic illness (Mhlungu, 1/23). Global Health NOW: For India’s Women, Safety…

IDSA’s “Science Speaks”: What we’re reading: Unprecedented Ebola challenges call for unprecedented responses, good investments and more Antigone Barton, senior editor and writer at “Science Speaks,” discusses several global health-related articles and releases addressing various topics, including a Kaiser Family Foundation issue brief on the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic…

AEI’s “AEIdeas”: Health aid a good investment, but challenges must be overcome Roger Bate, economist and visiting scholar at AEI, discusses Bill Gates’s recently published Wall Street Journal op-ed, in which Gates “provides a strong argument as to why foreign assistance for health is a good investment,” Bate writes. Bate continues, “Mr.…