18 APRIL 2013 | GENEVA - In advance of World Immunization Week, global experts are highlighting strategies to further advance progress on the Global Vaccine Action Plan that was endorsed by the World Health Assembly, 2012. Better supply and logistics systems are essential to reach the estimated 22 million children in developing countries who are still not protected from dangerous diseases with basic vaccines, according to a special immunization issue published today by Vaccine.

BILL GATES
April 10, 2013

Experts have long recognized that there is no “one-size-fits-all” approach to HIV services.

The features of the global HIV epidemic vary by country, often by community and patient, and it’s important to understand these distinctions so that we can design programs to meet people’s needs and strengthen their access to treatment and prevention.

KAREN LOWRY MILLER
December 04, 2012

ALESHA BLACK
October 05, 2012

Do you ever stop to think about the value of your extra time when your washing machine is cleaning your clothes instead of you standing over a tub of water for a few hours? Or, have you considered all the things you’re able to do because you can simply buy your food instead of growing it yourself?

Building Better Lives Together 2011 Annual Report

LETTER FROM THE CEO

One of my key goals as CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is improving how we work together. By that, I mean how we work as a team within the foundation and how we work with our larger team of partners to build better lives for the people we serve.

In the year since I wrote my last annual letter, I’ve made some important changes at the foundation—changes that will help all of us maximize the impact of our work together.

STRONG LEADERSHIP

LAURIE LEE
September 13, 2012

Today, in Abuja, the Government of Nigeria and the Gates Foundation signed an agreement that will allow the Gates Foundation to appoint a Country Representative in Nigeria.

RACHEL LONSDALE

Today was a great day in the global initiative to end polio forever. For the first time in three years, 32,641 children living in the Tirah Valley (near the Pakistan/Afghanistan border), received life-saving polio vaccines and protection against other vaccine-preventable diseases like measles.

This news is exciting because:

PETER KITHENE
August 20, 2012

Lynn Schreiber

Teresia bustles around her tiny straw-roofed house, arranging enough furniture for our delegation of new media journalists and bloggers to sit. She and her husband listen attentively as they are read the information and disclosure forms that enable KEMRI (Kenyan Medical Research Institute)/CDC to work with the data collected. As I mentioned in Friday's post, the home health workers we’re with are going to test the couple for HIV/AIDS.