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New commitments mark a strong start – with over 80 percent raised towards the 2026 goal The Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF) announced today – on the sidelines of the World Bank Group-IMF Spring Meetings – new funding commitments from governments and philanthropic partners totaling USD 806 million in support of its TRANSFORM 2030 strategy, a five-year plan to accelerate progress towards ending preventable maternal and child deaths in countries with the highest burden. These pledges mark the beginning of the GFF’s new investment round, and come at a decisive moment with the tools, evidence and partnerships in place to […]
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Tanzania has made historic gains in maternal health, but the next frontier is child survival. With just 350 paediatric specialists serving a nation that welcomes more than 2.3 million newborns each year, health leaders say expanding specialist training is essential to protect the country’s youngest citizens and accelerate progress in reducing preventable child deaths. This […]
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OverviewOver the next two decades, the Gates Foundation will work together with its partners to make as much progress as possible towards three primary goals: This focus builds on the extraordinary global progress in health and development between 2000 and 2025—a period when child deaths were more than halved, deaths from deadly infectious diseases were […]
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Investments Through 2030 to Catalyze Innovation in Maternal, Menstrual, Gynecological, and Sexual Health for Women Globally The Gates Foundation today announced a $2.5 billion commitment through 2030 to accelerate research and development (R&D) focused exclusively on women’s health. It will support the advancement of more than 40 innovations in five critical, chronically underfunded areas—particularly those […]
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[ Cliquez pour la version française ] By Aparajita Ramakrishnan, The Gates Foundation, and Marie Ba, Ouagadougou Partnership Every two minutes, a woman dies from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth. The effects of maternal mortality go beyond the delivery room. The futures of children, families, communities and economies are jeopardised with every premature death.1,2 […]
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