The foundation’s Family Planning team works to ensure that women and girls can access the contraceptives and family planning services they want and thus exercise their right to decide whether to have ...

Najib Bateganya leads the Water, Sanitation & Hygiene team’s efforts to advance inclusive and safely managed sanitation, through legacy investments and commitments with international funding ...

To strengthen Anglophone Africa journalists with evidence-based data reporting tools and enable them to illuminate the plight of the impoverished and vulnerable through insightful development data ...

WASHINGTON -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today a global health grant of $70 million in support of a partnership between Seattle-based Program for Appropriate Technology in Health ...

We are data people, and this is a data report. Sort of. In 2015, leaders from 193 countries agreed to the Sustainable Development Goals—the SDGs. These were big, bold objectives we wanted to achieve ...

When historians write about the first quarter of the 21st century, I think they may sum it up this way: Twenty years of unprecedented progress followed by five years of stagnation. This is true for ...

Today marks a critically important milestone in the fight against AIDS. For the first time, we have proof that a vaccine can provide protection against HIV infection in humans. These results offer new ...

WASHINGTON -- A new study of national college graduation data by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) reveals that far too many four-year colleges and universities graduate less than half of their ...

WASHINGTON -- An innovative financing program to help eradicate polio (poliomyelitis) worldwide by 2005 was launched today when the World Bank approved a US$28 million no-interest loan for the ...

to build capacity to enable CASEL to assume, support, and sustain the highest leverage role in the field of SEL in order to help make evidence-based SEL an integral part of every child’s education, ...

CHICAGO -- Nearly every U.S. public library offers free access to computers and the Internet, but overall libraries are challenged to provide enough workstations to meet demand, pay for ongoing ...

Our organization was founded on a simple premise—that people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live a healthy, productive life. In 2021, we published our ...