Bill Gates
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Global Health. Energy Innovation. Alzheimer’s.
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Climate change is one of the most serious challenges we face, and I’m committed as ever to supporting breakthroughs that will help the world reach net-zero.
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U.S. funding for global health saves an estimated 3.3 million lives each year. From HIV treatment to malaria prevention, the impact is real and measurable:
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Affordable, reliable energy has often come at the cost of higher emissions. But geothermal can change that—delivering around-the-clock, low-cost electricity without contributing to climate change.
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In the U.S., tuberculosis deaths are rare. In some parts of Africa, they’re thousands of times more common. We have better tools than ever, but they remain out of reach for too many. What’s missing is equitable access.
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The world left its fight against tuberculosis unfinished — how can we complete the job?
If we get it right, the world could save more than 1.2 million lives every year.
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Learning how many kids were dying from diarrhea back in 1997—when I never worried about it with my own kids—led me to get involved in global health:
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The facts are simple and devastating: Aid cuts have already cost lives, and the number of deaths will continue to rise. Here’s the evidence.
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U.S. global health and development aid is estimated to have saved 92 million lives over the past 20 years. We can't afford to let that kind of progress unravel:
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There’s never been a point in the past 25 years when more lives hung in the balance.
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Nick Kristof
5 months ago
A child dies of malnutrition every 15 seconds, as 185,535 boxes of special food for starving children are stacked in a warehouse in Rhode Island, paid for by American taxpayers. After shutting USAID, the Trump administration is just sitting on the boxes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...
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Opinion | ‘The U.S. Cannot Solve All the World’s Problems’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/opinion/american-aid-africa.html
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When the United States and other governments suddenly cut their aid budgets, I know for a fact that more children will die. Here’s the proof I’m showing Congress:
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A big step forward in the fight against Alzheimer’s: The FDA approved the first blood test to help diagnose the disease. Breakthroughs like this will make earlier, easier diagnosis possible—bringing us closer to better treatments and, someday, a cure.
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FDA OKs first blood test that can help diagnose Alzheimer's disease
U.S. health officials have endorsed the first blood test that can help diagnose Alzheimer’s. The test would help identify patients who may benefit from drugs that can modestly slow the memory-destroyi...
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The last 25 years have shown us what’s possible. The next 25 will depend on whether the world keeps showing up for the children who need it most:
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No mother or child should die from a preventable cause. No generation should live in fear of deadly infectious diseases. And no one should be denied the chance to thrive because of where they were born.
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