Bill Gates, the son of Microsoft’s founder and former chairman of the Gates Foundation, will meet with President Bola Tinubu this week to discuss ways to improve Nigeria’s primary healthcare system.
During his planned visit, he will speak with leaders from the federal and state levels to discuss reforms in the country’s primary healthcare system.
Gates will also attend a Goalkeepers Nigeria event with a focus on Africa’s innovation future, meet with local scientists and partners who are developing Nigeria’s national strategy for scaling up health solutions, and sign a statement from the Gates Foundation.
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According to Gates, the Foundation’s office in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, and Senegal, as well as its first African office in Ethiopia about 13 years ago, were a great way to build partnerships, according to the statement.
Gates met with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in Ethiopia, where he was informed that the country would travel there to discuss its continued support of crucial reforms, expanding essential services, and remaining resilient in the revolving global aid environment.
Gates also participated in an iodine-folic acid double-fortified salt initiative roundtable discussion with the Ethiopian Public Health Institute.
Gates will travel to Nigeria to meet with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and speak with state and federal leaders about the country’s reforms in primary healthcare.
He will also meet with local scientists and partners shaping Nigeria’s national AI strategy and expanding health solutions, according to the statement. He will also take part in a Goalkeepers Nigeria event that will be held in October.
Gates’ trip comes in response to the foundation’s historic announcement on May 8 that it would invest $200 billion over the course of the next 20 years to advance progress in saving lives and improving lives. In that time, Gate pledged to give the foundation “virtually all of his wealth.”
The foundation will collaborate with its partners to achieve three main objectives over the next 20 years, including preventing the deaths of mothers and babies; ensure that no one in the upcoming generation develops infectious diseases that are deadly; and direct millions of people to a path to prosperity, thereby putting them out of poverty. The foundation’s activities will stop at the end of 20 years.
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