The Gates Foundation has announced a $912 million pledge to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Speaking at the 2025 Goalkeepers event on Monday, the Foundation Chair, Bill Gates said the funds aims to shore up lifesaving health initiatives at a time when global health funding has fallen to its lowest level in 15 years.
Gates said low global funding is threatening decades of progress in reducing child mortality.
He described the situation as a crossroads for the world and urged renewed commitment to saving children’s lives and eradicating preventable diseases.
Gates warned that millions of children’s lives are at stake, stressing that the global leaders have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reverse the decline.
“Humanity is at a crossroads. With millions of children’s lives on the line, global leaders have a once-in-a-generation chance to do something extraordinary,” he said.
“The choices they make now whether to go forward with proposed steep cuts to health aid or to give the world’s children the chance they deserve to live a healthy life will determine what kind of future we leave for the next generation.”
The gathering held in New York brought together more than 1,000 government, community, philanthropic and private sector leaders.
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