Gates Foundation Chair, Bill Gates, will arrive in Nigeria this week to meet President Bola Tinubu and engage with top officials to discuss Nigeria’s primary health care reforms.
He will also participate in a Goalkeepers Nigeria event focused on Africa’s innovation and meet scientists and partners shaping AI strategy and scaling up health solutions.
His trip is coming after he announced he would give $200 billion over the next 20 years through his foundation.
He made the latest commitment yesterday to African leaders at African Union House in Addis Ababa.
A statement by the foundation’s Media manager, said the Gates Foundation chair urged African leaders to accelerate progress in health and development through innovation and partnership.
Gates’s trip follows the foundation’s announcement on May 8 that it would spend $200 billion over the next 20 years to advance progress on saving and improving lives.
According to him, the foundation will over the next two decades, work with partners to make progress in three primary goals: end preventable deaths of moms and babies; ensure the next generation grows up without having to suffer from deadly diseases; and lift millions out of poverty.
The Gates Foundation has worked with African partners to save lives, develop vaccines, and strengthen systems. It has helped catalyse more than 100 innovations and contributed to saving more than 80 million through Gavi and Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.
At the meeting in Addis Ababa, Gates assured leaders that place emphasis on people’s health and well-being of a $200 billion pledge.
The Nation/ Oyindamola Oyafewe
