The Playbook Podcast From 'The Conversation': Bill Gates on vaccine hesitancy, AI and global health
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Dec 14, 2025 
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Funding Cuts Reverse Child-Death Progress
- Bill Gates warns that reduced global health funding is reversing decades of progress and will increase child deaths.
- He links the rise to abrupt cuts in aid from wealthy countries and warns it's unsurprising given decreased resources.
Field Visits Shaped His Commitment
- Gates describes visiting malaria wards and seeing dramatic reductions in patients over his foundation's lifetime.
- Those field visits motivated his commitment to donate all his money over the next 20 years to cut childhood deaths further.
Which Programs Suffer Most First
- Gates pinpoints malaria, nutrition, and TB detection as areas hit hardest by aid cuts.
- He emphasizes the compounded effect when multiple wealthy nations reduce funding simultaneously.