China
China is an important strategic partner for our foundation in realizing our global goals. Since opening our China office in 2007, we have seen the tremendous impact that can be made when life-saving innovations reach everyone.
Overview
In recent decades, China has achieved remarkable success in addressing health inequity and poverty. The country’s increasing global engagement and capacity for innovation have also bolstered its potential to spur development efforts worldwide. We aim to support China in unlocking that potential in a way that benefits both China and the rest of the world, drawing on our global resources, networks, and expertise.
We provide financial and technical support to our Chinese partners and build bridges to international cooperation to help them accelerate product, technology, and systems innovation in health, agricultural development, and poverty reduction. We also create broad new partnerships to ensure that these innovations reach vulnerable populations across China and around the world as quickly as possible. Together, we have witnessed the tremendous impact that can be made when life-saving innovations reach everyone.
We are committed to long-term collaboration with our Chinese partners, and we believe that China has a crucial role to play in achieving our shared goal of building a fairer and healthier world.
Latest updates on our work in china
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Continuous innovation needed to eliminate malaria
Malaria affects hundreds of millions of people each year. To accelerate elimination of this deadly but preventable disease, the world must develop a new range of new and more effective solutions
Zhi-Jie Zheng
Director, China Pffice
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China's successful elimination of malaria, and its global impact
China's achievement shows us that it's possible to eliminate the disease worldwide. Innovative Chinese approaches may provide a successful formula for AFrica, which has 90% of the global malaria burden.
Wendy Wei
Senior Program Officer, Malaria, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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The secret journey of an effective vaccine
How a global public-private collaboration has successfully rolled back a little-known but devastating disease.
Caroline Lambert
Visiting fellow, Center for Global Development
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Fighting history's most successful infectious disease
How do you fight the most deadly communicable disease on the planet, Tuberculosis? The first step is prevention, and that means vaccinations
Huan Shitong
Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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I joined 1,800 maternal health experts in Cape Town. What i heard gave me hope for moms and newborns
Progress against maternal and newborn motarlity has stalled. But Dr. Sanjana Brardwaj says that new innovations and approaches could make pregnancy and childbirth safer for all.
Dr. Sanjana Bhardwaj
Deputy Director, Program Advocacy and Communications, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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Meet the innovators training the next generation of African data experts
When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, Kenya needed to slow the spread of the disease and understand its impact to essential health services. Three kenyans teamed up to help.
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To support innovators in Africa, create an environment where Africa R&D thrives
"We are best placed to answer the questions that impact us most" A conversation with Isabella Oyier and Abdoulaye Djimde
Abdoulaye Djimde and Isabella Oyier
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The world food system is under threat. It doesn't have to be that way.
Ukriane-related spikes in food prices are only the lastest evidence that the global agricultural system is broken. Governments around the world need to invest in a more resilient system that ensures a decent livelihood for smallholder farmers and prevents hunger in the face of crises of all kinds
Enock Chikava
Interim Director, Agricultural Development, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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Africa's health security requires strong African regulators
The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us many lessons about health security - not the least that, when health resources are scarce, African countries cannot necessarily rely on imports to protect their people.
Cheikh Oumar Seydi and Dr. Ibrahim Assane Mayaki
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Inside the roadmap for advancing gender equality in Kenya
In response to Kenya's grassroots organizing, President Uhuru Kenyatta announced a dozen concrete, actionalbe steps to end all forms of gender-based violence by 2026. A roadmap is in place to accomplish this.
Samburu Wa-shiko
Regional Reprensentative, East Africa, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Areas of focus
We are committed to working with China to improve health and development outcomes around the world.
Burkina Faso
Working with partners in Burkina Faso, we support projects that aim to empower women and girls, transform the agricultural economy, and combat infectious diseases.
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Ethopia
As co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Melinda French Gates shapes and approves the foundation’s strategies, reviews results, and sets the organization’s overall direction.
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Kenya
In Kenya, our work focuses on areas of overlap between our expertise and the government’s priorities under the Kenya Vision 2030 development blueprint and the country’s United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which include primary health care and gender equality.
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Nigeria
Ashish Dhawan is the founder and CEO of the Convergence Foundation (TCF), which is focused on accelerating India’s economic growth and development. He is also the chairperson of Ashoka University.
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We work with partners in South Africa to advance research and solutions that address the country’s areas of greatest need, including HIV and tuberculosis prevention, diagnosis, and treatment and progress in gender equality.
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How we support China
Facilitating financing and payment innovations to reduce catastrophic expenditure for TB patients
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Partnering with the private sector to expand access to voluntary family planning among women in poverty
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