Bill Gates' pessimistic message: We're worse than I expected.

“After seven years, the world is not on track to achieve its goals,” writes Gates and his ex-wife, co-founder of the Melinda French Gates foundation, in their annual report.

Poverty

The goal was to eliminate extreme poverty and since 2015 the percentage of the world that lives on less than $1.9 per day has dropped to only 8%, down from slightly more than 10%”.

Malnutrition

“) especially concerns the lack of food for children and malnutrition that especially affects women and mothers”.

Mother's Death

Mother mortality, according to Bill and Melinda Gates, is more than double the standard set by the 2015 goals. “In the current situation, we would have to speed up the pace of our progress five times faster to achieve the targets, because some projections still do not take into account the impact of pandemic, not to mention the war in Ukraine or the food crisis that erupted in Africa”, it is said at the report's entry.

Pandemia and War in Ukraine

We're worse than I anticipated. The effects of pandemic and now the effects of war in Ukraine are very dramatic”.

Vaccinate

“We are at the vaccine levels we had in 2009. But with funding in the next two years, we have to go back to where we were before the pandemic. And so, I remain optimistic about these general trends because of what we were doing up in the pandemic and because of the innovation line, which is quite exciting, both on the health front and on the agriculture front”.

Agriculture and Climate

I am optimistic that India, with its ups and downs, will reduce poverty over time. But we still face the challenge of Africa, where population growth is great. There are many health problems on that continent. And because most of the continent is near the equator, the effects of climate change are very dramatic”. /A2/