September 13, 2022 | 1:55 pmpoorest countries is increasingly challenging in a world still rocked by thepandemic, the threat of climate change, rising energy costs and the war in Ukraine, according toThe Microsoft co-founder turned philanthropist said it was a “paradox” that in the wake of a hugethreat, funding for tackling diseases like malaria and AIDS could actually drop this year.
“I am very worried… ironically, in the face of the clearest indication of why infectious disease is not a thing of the past, in fact, the funding levels could go down,” saidBillFoundation’s annual Goalkeepers report, which tracks progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals , around reducing poverty and improvingThe report finds that the pandemic has knocked the world off-course on almost every indicator, and progress would need to speed up by a factor of five in order to reach...
“It’s hard to overstate what a setback the pandemic has been and it’s hard to overstate what a setback the war in Ukraine is,” said