The organization’s annual Goalkeeper’s report shows dismal progress against United Nations goals
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation offered specific actions on Tuesday that philanthropists and governments can take to address maternal and newborn health and counter stalling progress against preventable death and disease for women and children in low-income countries.
The interventions the foundation outlined are practices “which we know work,” he said. “They’re not ‘maybe’ interventions, they are very concrete interventions that actually, literally save lives in a measurable way, relatively cheaply.” “As is so often the case in global health, innovations aren’t making their way to the people who need them most—women in low-income countries, as well as Black and Indigenous women in high-income countries like the United States, who are dying at three times the rate of white women. That needs to change,” Melinda French Gates, co-chairman of the foundation said in the report.
The Gates Foundation spends about US$370 million a year on maternal and newborn and child health work, in addition to financing that provides for research into some specific programs. Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance, or Champs, for instance, is a program funded by the foundation since 2015 to study the root causes of child mortality. The program is currently in eight countries in Africa and East Asia that have high levels of childhood death.
“We’re a little biased at the Gates Foundation, but we think there really is no greater return on investment than these investments in health,” Suzman said. Providing iron through an IV drip in one sitting a month, instead of requiring mothers to make multiple visits to a healthcare facility to receive iron tablets, can help a child’s neurodevelopment, for instance, meaning he or she is more likely to grow up a productive member of society.
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