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2026 Gates Foundation Annual Letter: The Road to 2045
"Last year, deaths from HIV, TB, and malaria rose. And in 2025—for the first time this century—it’s almost certain that more children died than the year before."
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- Health Care
- Region
- Global
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Viewpoint: After 2030: Defending the Global Goals in an Age of Retreat
If the SDGs are to be replaced or reimagined after 2030, the most urgent task is to identify what must not be lost.
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- Agriculture, Education, Energy, Environment, Finance, Health Care, Investing, Technology, WASH
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- Global
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Storytelling for Velocity, Not Visibility: Why African Development Organizations Need a New Communications Playbook
Something subtle yet profound is changing in how global development organizations in Africa communicate about their work and impact. According to Chrisphine Omondi, a communications specialist with experience across the continent, these organizations have often relied on external communications consultants who produce reports, recommendations and strategies, then exit before those plans are fully implemented. He argues that this model no longer fits the pace and complexity of Africa’s evolving development ecosystem, and explores how African organizations can create a more holistic, systems-based communications model that aligns with the broader changes that are reshaping global development.
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- Social Enterprise
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U.S. Formally Withdraws From World Health Organization
Global health experts worry that a lack of international coordination will lead to death and disaster.
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- Health Care
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- Global
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Gates Foundation Announces $9 Billion Budget, Plans to Cut Staff
The spending increase is part of the foundation’s commitment to accelerate its mission ahead of its planned closure in 2045.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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US Loses Gavi Board Seat After Withholding Funding
In 2025, Trump administration official Mark Kevin Lloyd joined Gavi’s board as the U.S. representative, occupying one of the five seats reserved for donor countries.
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- Health Care
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Analysis: Why Developing Countries Oppose the EU’s Carbon Border Tax
Some poorer nations argue the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) risks pushing the cost of decarbonisation onto poorer exporters, raising concerns over fairness, trade rules and access to finance and clean technology.
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- Energy, Technology
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- Global
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US Suspending Immigrant Visa Processing for 75 Countries
The suspension applies to immigrant visas, such as those for employment or to join family in the US, to countries including Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Haiti, and Somalia.
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- Global
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