By Gbenga Oresanya, he is a beyond-border journalist
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged $912 million over the next three years to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. This commitment, which matches the foundation’s previous pledge, is intended to help curb the spread of these diseases and save millions of lives.
The announcement was made by Bill Gates, co-chair of the foundation, at the 2025 Goalkeepers event on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
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The pledge comes at a critical time, as global development assistance for health has fallen to a 15-year low, with a 21% drop between 2024 and 2025. Gates warned that if these cuts continue, they could reverse decades of progress that have halved childhood mortality since 2000.
Gates emphasized that the Global Fund is one of the most effective initiatives in global health, having saved over 70 million lives since its inception in 2002. He noted that every dollar invested in the fund delivers an estimated $19 in health and economic returns.
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The new pledge brings the Gates Foundation’s total contributions to the Global Fund to $4.9 billion, making it one of the largest investments the foundation has ever made.
The funding is designed to galvanize governments, philanthropists, and the private sector to contribute to the Fund’s Eighth Replenishment, which is co-hosted by South Africa and the United Kingdom and ends in November. Gates urged world leaders to seize this “once-in-a-generation” opportunity to invest in global health and make some of the deadliest childhood diseases a thing of the past by 2045.
