Gates Foundation pledges $2.5B for women’s health worldwide
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🗓️ 4 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | The Gates Foundation announced a new $2.5 billion pledge through the year 2030 for women's health initiatives across the globe. |
| 0:08.5 | It comes at a time when the Trump administration is cutting major research and aid directed at women and maternal health. |
| 0:15.1 | Amna Nawaz spoke recently with the point person about the goals of this new funding. |
| 0:20.0 | Dr. Anita Zaddi is president of the Gates Foundation's Gender Equality Division, and she joins me now. |
| 0:26.2 | Dr. Zadhi, welcome to the News Hour. Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:29.2 | Thank you, Amna. Thank you for having me. |
| 0:31.1 | So this new commitment of $2.5 billion for women's health over the next five years is focused on five areas. I'll tick |
| 0:38.8 | through them quickly here. Obstetric care to make pregnancy and delivery safer, maternal health |
| 0:44.0 | and nutrition, gynaological and menstrual health, more accessible and effective contraceptive |
| 0:49.5 | options, and better diagnosis and treatment of STIs or sexually transmitted infections. So why these five priorities? |
| 0:57.2 | What's the overarching goal here? So Amna, this is when we looked at all of the data that is |
| 1:04.7 | there for women's health and what it is that causes a lot of problems around the world, |
| 1:10.4 | these were the areas that had three things in common. One is they causes a lot of problems around the world. These were the areas that had three |
| 1:11.9 | things in common. One is they are a huge burden in unmet need. Two, is that they are very neglected |
| 1:19.0 | from an R&D perspective. And three is that low-cost, affordable innovations that can be available |
| 1:26.5 | in the near-term horizon are possible for many of |
| 1:29.2 | these issues. You've said also these are going to particularly affect women in low and middle |
| 1:33.3 | income countries. We should point out your background. Was in pediatric care in Pakistan, can you |
| 1:38.8 | just give us an example of the kinds of things that you would see that tells you these investments make a real difference. |
| 1:45.9 | Give us one or two stories. |
| 1:47.8 | Yes, so how often, for example, women don't get cesarean sections in time |
| 1:52.3 | because we don't have the right tools to diagnose when she needs a cesarean section? |
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