In the 25 years since it was founded by Gill Gates and his wife Melinda French Gates, the organization has helped drive a sharp decline in global mortality rates. In 2000, more than 10 million children died before the age of five – a very high number. This year, however, change is about to emerge.
Child mortality is predicted to rise in 2025 for the first time this century, according to the Gates Foundation’s annual report. The main reason? Massive cuts in government funding from rich nations like the US
“We may be the generation that discovered the most advanced science and innovation in human history – but we couldn’t get the money together to make sure we saved lives,” Gates said in the report.
About 4.6 million children died before their fifth birthday in 2024. This year, that number is estimated to have increased by 200,000 to 200,000 million.
“Obviously one of the key causes has been the high reduction in foreign development aid from high-income countries,” Mark Suzman, CEO of the Foundation, told reporters during a conference call on Monday (Dec. 1). “We need to go back.”
The charge is expected to be worse. An extra 12 children could die by 2045 if cuts in global health spending continue at 20%, the report warned. A further 30 percent cut will raise this figure to 16 million.
This is not the first time that Microsoft Counger has sounded the alarm about the backward development of the world’s health. Gates, criticism of the Trump Administration’s decision to cut organizations such as the US agency for international development (which has been represented and the year to accelerate the donations of his foundation in the midst of ’emergency problems.’
The foundation of the gate, which has already given 25 billion in causes of bleeding due to its construction, now plans to spend less than $ 200 in the next two decades before the good closing of the doors. Deductions from the fight and assessment of Gates’ $104.2 Billion Net
The gateway foundation, which has already donated more than $100 billion since its founding, now plans to spend less than $200 billion over the next two decades before closing its doors. Deductions from the fight and assessment of Gates’ $104.2 Billion Net
However, reversing the current trajectory of child mortality will require a lot of money. Several emerging economies and middle-income countries, such as China, Indonesia and South Africa, have increased their contributions to global health systems, Suzman said. “But the reality is that, while those things are very welcome, they cannot compensate for the size of the reduction in the traditional donors who are very large.”
Deadly decline with world help
International aid cuts from the US have been particularly difficult to track due to their opaque nature. “There was very little awareness and understanding of what was being cut, which was starting over,” Suzman said. The country recently also pledged $ 4.5 billion to the Global Fund, to share the money established in 2002 to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and Malalevelia – but it also plans to end its support for the Glacamine Alliance Gavi, another global health fund.
Combined with setbacks from other leading nations, including the UK, France and Germany, these cuts are accelerating the evolution of the last century of the Progressive Era, according to the Sates Foundation. “It is these accumulated nudities that lead to the sad stories we still report today,” Suzman said.
The foundation says it will continue to urge governments and philanthropic actors to direct more resources to global health. But for now, it should work with less. Going forward, the organization plans to prioritize effective measures such as investments in basic health interventions, malaria and pneumonia interventions, and HIV-interventions.
“By making moral priorities and committing to solutions that have the most impact, I am confident that I can stop the recurrence of child deaths,” said Amasago. “We won’t stop almost.”
