Afghanistan, Sept. 23 -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $912 million to the Global Fund, urging governments to sustain health financing and prevent setbacks in disease control.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced a $912 million contribution to the Global Fund to combat AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, while urging governments not to scale back health financing.
Bill Gates revealed the commitment in an interview with Reuters on September 23, ahead of the foundation's annual "Goalkeepers" event in New York. He said the world is at a "crossroads" and warned that millions of children could die from preventable diseases if funding continues to decline.
The pledge, equal to the foundation's 2022 contribution, comes a...