Melinda Gates

Recent claims

• at the end of 2026, Pivotal Ventures will pick another very large topic for investment, potentially either mental health for women or autoimmune diseases
  Feb 5, 2026
• Melinda Gates pledged $1 billion over ten years to promote gender equality in the United States.
  Oct 3, 2019
• Over the next ten years, Melinda Gates committed $1 billion to expanding women's power and influence in the United States.
  Oct 2, 2019
• I am committing $1 billion to expanding women's power and influence in the United States.
  Oct 2, 2019
• Our foundation is committing an additional $375 million to this work [family planning], to be used over the next three years.
  Jul 11, 2017
• Polio will be declared eradicated by 2018 or within one or two years of that.
  Jan 22, 2015
• The number of children who die before the age of five will be cut in half between 2015 and 2030.
  Jan 21, 2015
• The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in partnership with the United Kingdom government, launched a $4 billion fundraising campaign with the goal of getting 120 million more women access to contraceptives by 2020.
  Jul 11, 2012
• The more than $1 billion additional funding announced today will be used over the next five years to prevent and treat malaria in targeted, highly-endemic sub-Saharan African countries. The goal is to reduce malaria deaths by 50 percent in targeted African countries.
  Jun 30, 2005