Author: Eileen Drage O’Reilly / Source: Axios
Global health funds play a key role in improving the world’s health — with the deaths of children under 5 dropping by more than 50% over the past couple decades when investment strengthened, Melinda and Bill Gates told a press conference Wednesday.
Why it matters: Activities from 4 major global funds, which have received almost $10 billion from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation since 1999, have proven to offer “enormous” benefits, they said.
Details: Bill said the returns from their investment into GAVI, the Global Fund, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative and Global Financing Facility have been “really fantastic.”
- Deaths from infectious diseases like HIV, malaria and measles have halved from their 1990 levels, a key factor in lowering death rates in the poorest countries.
- A child born today is half as likely to die before the age of five, compared to if she was born in 2000.
- Melinda noted that part of the challenge is to help less developed countries improve their…
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