{"id":27410,"date":"2025-05-08T12:15:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27410"},"modified":"2025-05-08T12:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:28:15","slug":"what-to-know-about-bill-gatess-plans-to-shut-down-the-gates-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27410","title":{"rendered":"What to Know About Bill Gates\u2019s Plans to Shut Down the Gates Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"article-summary\" class=\"css-165lfve e1wiw3jv0\">The billionaire philanthropist says he will accelerate his giving \u2014 but then dissolve his organization in 20 years, decades earlier than he originally planned.<\/p>\n<section class=\"meteredContent css-1r7ky0e\">\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Thursday, Bill Gates announced a new, faster timeline to give away his fortune \u2014 and close the doors of the Gates Foundation, one of the world\u2019s leading global-health philanthropies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Over two days last week, he spoke to me for <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/08\/magazine\/bill-gates-foundation-closing-2045.html\" title>an exclusive interview<\/a> to explain his decision \u2014 and why it made sense to him, at a critical moment in public health, when the Trump administration\u2019s steep cuts to foreign aid have thrown many global-health priorities into jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Here are some of the key takeaways from <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/08\/magazine\/bill-gates-foundation-closing-2045.html\" title>that conversation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\n<h2 class=\"css-2upsz0 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-2fad075a\">Before the foundation shuts down in 2045, Gates has committed to it spending $200 billion, beginning now.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">All told, the foundation has spent<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>$100 billion over 25 years. It now intends to double that over the next two decades, focusing on three key goals: that \u201cno mom, child or baby dies of a preventable cause\u201d; that \u201cthe next generation grows up in a world without deadly infectious diseases\u201d; and that \u201chundreds of millions of people break free from poverty, putting more countries on a path to prosperity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">These are astronomically ambitious goals, but Gates and his team believe they can be achieved in a compressed timeline \u2014 just 20 years, instead of an original vision that would have lasted for decades longer \u2014 and he is pouring nearly all of his remaining fortune into making it happen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"Dropzone-1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-2upsz0 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-43a1facc\">In the next 20 years, Gates believes, progress will be \u2018incredible.\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is a miraculous time,\u201d he told me, with the most exciting work the foundation has ever done sitting in the R.&amp;D. pipeline now, waiting to be delivered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was almost hard to keep up with his survey of breakthroughs: on H.I.V., on tuberculosis, but also on more obscure and neglected diseases like lymphatic filariasis and visceral leishmaniasis. 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It now intends to double that over the next two decades, focusing on three key goals: that \u201cno mom, child or baby dies of a preventable cause\u201d; that \u201cthe next generation grows up in a world without deadly infectious diseases\u201d; and that \u201chundreds of millions of people break free from poverty, putting more countries on a path to prosperity.\u201dThese are astronomically ambitious goals, but Gates and his team believe they can be achieved in a compressed timeline \u2014 just 20 years, instead of an original vision that would have lasted for decades longer \u2014 and he is pouring nearly all of his remaining fortune into making it happen.In the next 20 years, Gates believes, progress will be \u2018incredible.\u2019\u201cThis is a miraculous time,\u201d he told me, with the most exciting work the foundation has ever done sitting in the R.&#038;D. pipeline now, waiting to be delivered.It was almost hard to keep up with his survey of breakthroughs: on H.I.V., on tuberculosis, but also on more obscure and neglected diseases like lymphatic filariasis and visceral leishmaniasis. 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