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The Great Escape Is an Excellent Book With One Big Flaw

Bill Gates reviews The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality by Angus Deaton

A Reason to Smile on April 15

Use this calculator to see how many lives your income taxes will save. It’s probably more than you think.

What It Takes to Wipe Out Malaria

Bill and Melinda Gates visit Cambodia to see the country’s efforts to eliminate malaria from within its borders. What they saw may eventually point the way toward a goal that’s shared by many in the global health community: eradicating malaria.

“Mosquitoes Are Smart. We Have to Be Smarter.”

Bill Gates introduces Dr. Prosper Chaki, who runs a project in Tanzania designed to kill Anopheles mosquito larvae. Dr. Prosper Chaki is one of thousands of innovative researchers around the globe designing new and better ways to fight malaria.

Why I Gave My Blood to Defeat Dengue

Bill Gates visits an Indonesian university to check in on an amazing project to control the spread of dengue. Researchers there are part of a global effort exploring whether a bacterium called Wolbachia can be used to control dengue.

What It Feels Like to Have Malaria

Bill Gates quotes a description of what it’s like to have malaria and explains why we should eradicate this disease that kills so many children and limits human potential.

The Deadliest Animal in the World

Bill Gates introduces Mosquito Week on his personal blog, the Gates Notes. Everything posted this week is dedicated to this deadly creature. Mosquitoes carry devastating diseases like malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, and encephalitis.

A Master Class with Warren Buffett

Bill Gates attends the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska and comes away with deeper appreciation for his friend Warren Buffett.

Why I High-Fived a Colleague in Paris

I went to Europe this week and heard some great news about foreign aid.

Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues

Today, the poor are disproportionately more likely to suffer and die from plagues—diseases such as AIDS, TB, malaria, and cholera. Farmer’s concern is that the global health community emphasizes strategies that blame the victims instead of seeking solutions.