Record budget for Gates Foundation as wider global health funding stalls
Jan. 16, 2024 The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans to spend more this year than ever before, $8.6 billion as wider health funding for the lowest income countries stutters…
Gates donates $40 mln to boost access to mRNA vaccines in Africa
October 9, 2023 The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will give $40 million, including to a Belgian biotech company and two leading African vaccine manufacturers, in a bid to boost…
1st new TB vaccine in 100 years advances as Wellcome, Gates Foundation fund trial
June 29, 2023 Wellcome and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced funding to advance a tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidate, M72/AS01E (M72), through a Phase III clinical trial. If…
NIGERIA’S HEALTH SYSTEM ROBUST, CAN ACHIEVE GREATER COVERAGE WITH RESOURCESÂ – OSINBAJO
Feb. 1, 2022 … VP receives Dangote, delegation from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation The Federal Government says despite the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Nigeria’s public health system…
Compliance to national food fortification standards hit 90% target in 2020 – Osinbajo
Although efforts by stakeholders in the Food Processing Industry to improve the nutritional value of edible oil, salt, sugar, wheat flour, and other processed foods is commendable, ensuring full compliance…
COVID-19: Vaccine Alliance says poorer nations to get 100m extra vaccine doses by 2021
Up to 100 million additional doses of any eventual COVID-19 vaccines will be secured for delivery to poorer countries in 2021, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, announced Tuesday. The announcement doubles…
Gender equality: Over 2bn women, girls face threat as 2030 progress stalls
More than 2 billion women and girls around the world face missing out on the advantages of their male peers as progress towards global gender equality goals stalls, advocacy groups…
Rotary, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation partner to infuse additional $450m into global polio eradication effort
Rotary and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are renewing their longstanding partnership to end polio, announcing a joint commitment of up to $450 million to support the global…
CSOs issue stern warning on the diminishing impact of global efforts to eradicate Polio, in developing countries
African and Haitian Civil Society Organisations from Cotonou, Douala, Kinshasa, Abidjan, Conakry, Accra, Bamako, Nouakchott, Abuja, Freetown, Kampala, Lusaka, Nairobi, Dakar, Monrovia, Port au Prince continue to track vaccines,…