Bill Gates sounds alarm about 'significant reversal in child deaths'
“It doesn’t have to be like this.” That’s how Bill Gates, chair of the Gates Foundation, opens the 2025 Goalkeepers Report, “We Can’t Stop at Almost.” The Microsoft cofounder sees a turning point after decades of progress in reducing childhood mortality. “The death of a child is always a tragedy,” he continues. “But there’s something especially devastating about a child dying of a disease we know how to prevent.”
For the first time this century, the report finds, the number of children dying before their fifth birthday is
“It doesn’t have to be like this.” That’s how Bill Gates, chair of the Gates Foundation, opens the 2025 Goalkeepers Report, “We Can’t Stop at Almost.” The Microsoft cofounder sees a turning point after decades of progress in reducing childhood mortality. “The death of a child is always a tragedy,” he continues. “But there’s something especially devastating about a child dying of a disease we know how to prevent.”
For the first time this century, the report finds, the number of children dying before their fifth birthday is
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