Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Melinda French Gates to step down as co-chair of Gates Foundation
Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates had pledged to continue work together through trial period after filing for divorce in 2021
Why is pre-eclampsia still causing the deaths of mothers and their babies?
The condition affects up to 6% of all pregnancies yet understanding of its causes and how to treat it remains basic
Fair Access
‘Gamechanging’ TB vaccine within reach after $500m pledge to run final trialsJoint deal between Gates Foundation and Wellcome to develop M72 jab could save 8.5 million lives and prevent 76 million cases
‘The strain is the worst of my lifetime’: how Bill Gates is staying optimistic
Covid and Ukraine war were major setbacks in pursuit of global development goals, philanthropist admits, but cutting back on aid would be ‘tragic’
You ask the questions
Bill Gates: ‘Vaccines are a miracle. It’s mind-blowing somebody could say the opposite’The Microsoft co-founder takes questions from scientists, academics and readers on Ukraine, Covid, Jeffrey Epstein and more
Billions pledged to tackle gender inequality at UN forum
Generation Equality Forum in Paris announces plans to radically speed up progress on women’s rights
Gates’s divorce reflects UK trend to settle out of court, say lawyers
Melinda Gates could become world’s second-richest woman
Rich countries leaving rest of the world behind on Covid vaccines, warns Gates Foundation
Deals struck by wealthy nations to secure treatments could leave the world’s poorest people unvaccinated without urgent action
'Covid has magnified every existing inequality' – Melinda Gates
Pandemic could result in a ‘lost decade’ for developing countries says co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in stark report
EU offers 'heartfelt apology' to Italy over coronavirus response
Ursula von der Leyen voices regret as expert warns herd immunity still a way off in Europe
The Gates Foundation shouldn’t legitimise Narendra Modi
Gloria Steinem and Akeel BilgramiDismay at Gates Foundation prize for Narendra Modi
The long read
People v mosquitos: what to do about our biggest killerUS-China trade war imperils efforts to beat poverty, warns Bill Gates
Melinda Gates pushes G7 to close digital gender gap in Africa
World leaders to back call to help rural poor and women access mobile banking
Observer New Review Q&A
Melinda Gates: ‘I look for potential and then try to figure out how to scale it up’The philanthropist and wife of Bill Gates on what she tells her kids, getting women into tech and the perils of wealth
The Observer's obituaries of 2018
Kofi Annan remembered by Melinda GatesThe philanthropist remembers the Nobel peace prize winner and UN secretary general
Hope for male 'pill' breakthrough after huge cash injection
Dundee University researchers receive $1m funding boost from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Bill and Melinda Gates urge Trump to respect people and to not cut foreign aid
Gates foundation letter urged the president to treat women and minorities with more respect and warned against cutting aid to the developing world
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