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"The good news is that this is eminently achievable. We can continue to reduce health inequity while dealing with war, the economy, the pandemic, and climate change."
That's the takeaway from a New York Times op-ed by Bill and Melinda Gates, who are putting their money where their mouth is in an attempt to save the world's poorest.
"I've been saying for years that the world is getting better," writes Bill Gates.
"I'll point out that the number of young children who die before their fifth birthday has fallen by more than half in just two decades, from 10 million in 2000 to just over 4 million today.
But current events are making it harder to argue that the future will be better than the past."
The Gates' philanthropic foundation is putting its money where its mouth is, in the form of a $100 million donation to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and malaria, among other things, in an attempt to cut the number of neonatal deaths, babies born in the first 30 days of life who die only a third of the way through their life.
The World Health Organization estimates that nearly 1.9 million babies died in the first 30 days of life in 2019, a third fewer than in 2000.
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