Gates Foundation

June 30, 2026 9:27 AM

Warren Buffett skips donation to Gates Foundation amid Epstein review, WSJ reports

Warren Buffett is skipping his usual mid-year multibillion-dollar donation to the Gates Foundation as he waits to see the findings of a review by the foundation of its ties to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The foundation has been mired in controversy due to Chairman Bill Gates' association with Epstein. A release of emails in January by the U.S. Justice Department also showed communication between Epstein and the Gates Foundation's staff. Gates ...

February 16, 2026 4:32 PM

Bill Gates visits Real Time Governance Society Centre at Andhra Secretariat

Gates Foundation Chairman Bill Gates on Monday visited Real Time Governance Society (RTGS) Centre at Andhra Pradesh Secretariat here to view utilisation of technology in governance. Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu explained to him how faster civic services are being provided and the results being achieved through Real Time Governance. Bill Gates enquired about the functioning and progress of Data Lake, Aware 2.0, WhatsApp Governance, Sanjeevani project and Amaravati projects. He also witn...

January 21, 2026 4:50 PM

Gates and OpenAI team up for AI health push in African countries

The Gates Foundation and OpenAI are setting up a $50 million partnership to help African countries use artificial intelligence to improve their health systems. The partnership, called Horizon1000, plans to work with African leaders to work out how best to use the technology, starting with Rwanda. "In poorer countries with enormous health worker shortages and lack of health systems infrastructure, AI can be a gamechanger in expanding access to quality care," said Gates in a blog post announcing...

December 4, 2025 10:50 AM

Child deaths will rise this year as aid cuts reverse progress, says Gates

Around 200,000 more children will likely die before their fifth birthday this year than in 2024 as international aid cuts undermine decades of progress, the Gates Foundation said on Thursday. The projected increase would mark the first rise in preventable child deaths this century, Gates said, from an estimated 4.6 million in 2024 to 4.8 million this year. Child deaths have roughly halved since 2000. "For decades, the world made steady progress saving children’s lives. But now, as challenges...

October 10, 2025 12:09 PM

Bill Gates, PAHO consider ways to bring weight-loss drugs to lower-income countries

The Gates Foundation and the Pan American Health Organization are both working on ways to make weight-loss drugs like Novo Nordisk's Wegovy and Eli Lilly's Mounjaro more accessible in lower-income countries, the global health groups told Reuters. In separate interviews, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and PAHO director Dr Jarbas Barbosa said for the first time that their organizations were each seeking strategies to remedy the unequal availability of the highly effective but expensive tre...

October 3, 2025 1:15 PM

Bill Gates lauds India’s rise as “global leader in innovation”

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Friday praised India as a global leader in innovation, highlighting that its pioneering solutions have the potential to improve millions of lives across the Global South. Addressing an event organised by the Indian Consulate General in Seattle in partnership with the Gates Foundation, Gates expressed hope to continue collaborating with India on its journey toward Viksit Bharat 2047. “It's fitting that we're coming together on the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi....

May 14, 2024 1:46 PM

Melinda Gates to exit Gates Foundation with $12.5 bln for own charity work

Melinda French Gates is leaving the charitable foundation she co-founded with former spouse Bill Gates more than 20 years ago and will get $12.5 billion for her own work to uplift women and families, she said on Monday. The billionaire benefactors parted ways in 2021 after 27 years of marriage but had pledged to continue their philanthropic work together. Their final divorce order filed in a Seattle court had no details on an agreement reached between the two on how to divide their marital asse...