Malaria Bill and Melinda gates Foundation

1. Health: Malaria
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

2. Introduction to Bill and Melinda Gates
• We work with partner organizations worldwide to tackle
critical problems in four program areas. Our Global
Development Division works to help the world’s poorest
people lift themselves out of hunger and poverty. Our
Global Health Division aims to harness advances in science
and technology to save lives in developing countries. Our
United States Division works to improve U.S. high school
and postsecondary education and support vulnerable
children and families in Washington State. And our Global
Policy & Advocacy Division seeks to build strategic
relationships and promote policies that will help advance
our work. Our approach to grantmaking in all four areas
emphasizes collaboration, innovation, risk-taking, and,
most importantly, results.

3. Global health division
• Our Global Health Division aims to harness advances in
science and technology to save lives in developing
countries. We work with partners to deliver proven
tools—including vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics—as
well as discover pathbreaking new solutions that are
affordable and reliable. Equally important is innovation
in how we bring health interventions to those who
need them most. We invest heavily in vaccines to
prevent infectious diseases—including HIV, polio, and
malaria—and support the development of integrated
health solutions for family planning, nutrition, and
maternal and child health.

4. History
• Building our foundation (2000 - 2009)
• Our first projects, like bringing the Internet to public
libraries, sprang from our founders’ Microsoft experience.
But in the 1990s, Bill and Melinda learned about millions of
children who needed simple medical treatments. With an
expanded focus, we sought out and supported groups who
were saving lives around the world.
• Our work continues (2010 - 2013)
• Today, we work with thousands of partners in Africa, India,
Europe, South America, and here in the United States. We
are guided by the Gates family’s deeply held belief: that all
lives have equal value. Our goal is to find solutions for
people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live.

5. Impact
• 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake: The Foundation made total grant
donations of US$3 million to various charities to help with the aid effort
for victims of the earthquake. These charities include: CARE international,
International Rescue Committee, Mercy Corps, Save the Children, and
World Vision.
• 2005 Kashmir earthquake: The Foundation made a donation of
US$500,000 for the earthquake.
• Water, Hygiene, and Sanitation: Improved sanitation in the developing
world is a global need, but a neglected priority. The Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) include a sanitation target to reach 75 percent
coverage of improved sanitation by 2015, but it remains one of the most
difficult-to-achieve MDG goals. According to the "Millennium
Development Goals Report 2012", 2.5 billion people do not have access to
improved sanitation and nearly 1.1 billion resort to open defecation (MDG
Report, 2012). Even in urban areas, more than 2 billion people in the
developing world lack access to services and infrastructure for the safe
disposal of human waste (The World Bank, 2003).

6. Credits
• www.google.com
• http://www.gatesfoundation.org/
• Team Members: Sean Lim, Derek Shin, Eric
Ong, Tan Joe Yeow