摘要：据德国之声2025年6月3日的最新报道，美国亿万富翁比尔・盖茨宣布，将在未来20年内将其慈善机构盖茨基金会2000亿美元的捐赠基金的大部分用于非洲，并呼吁非洲领导人与他共同推动非洲大陆的卫生与发展事业。他表示，其基金会将与把民众健康放在首位的国家合作。
比尔·盖茨喂非洲儿童口服疫苗
据德国之声2025年6月3日的最新报道，美国亿万富翁比尔・盖茨宣布，将在未来20年内将其慈善机构盖茨基金会2000亿美元的捐赠基金的大部分用于非洲，并呼吁非洲领导人与他共同推动非洲大陆的卫生与发展事业。他表示，其基金会将与把民众健康放在首位的国家合作。
此前，盖茨曾于5月8日在埃塞俄比亚首都亚的斯亚贝巴向非洲领导人发表讲话时作出承诺，表示将在2045年前逐步结束其基金会的运作。
盖茨说：“我最近承诺，我将在未来20年内把我的财富捐赠出去，其中大部分资金将用于帮助你们解决非洲的挑战。”他同时呼吁各国领导人通过合作与创新推动卫生与发展事业。
盖茨对与会的政府官员、外交官和卫生工作者说：“通过卫生和教育释放人类潜力，非洲每个国家都应该走上繁荣之路，而参与这一进程令人振奋。”
比尔·盖茨基金是小布什总统防治艾滋病紧急救援计划的积极支持者
盖茨之所以做出这一决定，在一定程度上与特朗普政府第二任期伊始大幅削减对外援助有着，根据时任美国总统唐纳德・特朗普的捐赠和预算监督顾问埃隆・马斯克的建议，特朗普暂停了对外援助。马斯克甚至宣要“把美国国际开发署扔进碎木机”。
全球知名医学期刊《柳叶刀》最近的一项研究预测，美国对小布什总统时期通过的“总统防治艾滋病紧急救援计划”对外援助资金的削减，可能将导致到2030年时超过50万儿童失去生命。《自然》杂志也指出，美国援外资金的持续中断可能在15年内导致约2500万人额外死亡。
因而，比尔・盖茨多次公开批评对特朗普政府削减对外援助，认为这一政策可能对全球健康和发展造成灾难性后果。盖茨认为，美国对外援助是 “性价比最高的投资”，仅占联邦预算不到 1%，却能以少量投入换取多重战略收益。他在接受媒体采访时批评特朗普政府未经国会同意擅自削减 “总统防治艾滋病紧急救援计划”和脊髓灰质炎项目资金，指出这将导致 “数百万人死亡”。
盖茨特别谴责特朗普的顾问埃隆・马斯克将美国国际开发署（USAID）称为 “犯罪组织” 的言论，强调 USAID 工作人员 “在做了不起的工作”，削减其预算无异于 “杀害儿童”。他表示，正是因为 “特朗普政府削减 USAID 预算”，他才决定 “以远超原计划的速度回馈社会”。
盖茨指出：“投资初级卫生保健对健康和福祉的影响最大。我们从初级卫生保健中认识到，帮助母亲在怀孕前和怀孕期间保持健康并获得充足营养，能带来最显著的效果，确保儿童在头四年获得良好营养也至关重要。”
盖茨基金会已在包括非洲在内的多个项目上投入巨额资金，旨在减少儿童和孕产妇死亡；推动疟疾或艾滋病等传染病疫苗的研发进展；以及帮助贫困人口摆脱贫困。基金会表示，通过与全球疫苗免疫联盟和全球抗击艾滋病、结核病和疟疾基金的合作，基金会已促成100多项创新，拯救了超过8000万生命。
盖茨特别提到埃塞俄比亚、莫桑比克、尼日利亚、卢旺达、赞比亚和津巴布韦，称在他看来，这些国家展现出推动创新的强有力领导力。他表示：“大约13年前，我们在埃塞俄比亚设立了首个非洲办公室。现在我们在南非、肯尼亚、尼日利亚和塞内加尔都有办公室。这是我们加强合作伙伴关系的好方式。”
比尔·盖茨与其前妻多次赴非洲参加慈善活动
三、盖茨再次呼吁“富人应在慈善事业上做更多”
盖茨通过创立计算机软件公司微软发家，并与前妻梅琳达共同创立了盖茨基金会。他敦促其他富人将财富用于造福人类，而非仅购买供个人享乐的财产。
在最近接受《纽约时报》采访时，当盖茨被问及他为何捐赠巨额财富时，他首先表示：“现在把钱花在有意义的事业上比以后花会产生更大影响。”他指的是将钱将用在农业和人工智能发展方面将对人类社会产生的积极影响。他补充道：“这笔钱应该以最有可能带来积极影响的方式回馈社会。”
盖茨强调：“我确实认为良好的榜样会影响他人。我认为现在的富人应该在慈善事业上做得更多，我们已经有了一些这样的榜样。我还认为，20年后的富人应该在慈善事业上做得更多。”
在非洲期间，盖茨还将分别会见埃塞俄比亚总理阿比・艾哈迈德和尼日利亚总统博拉・艾哈迈德・蒂努布，讨论两国在人工智能和医疗改革方面的事宜。
Bill Gates to Give Most of $200 billion Fund to Africa. By Jon Shelton onDeutsche Welle (Bonn). 3 June 2025
Bill Gates has urged African leaders to join him in advancing health and development on the continent. He says his foundation will partner with nations putting people's health first.
US billionaire Bill Gates on Tuesday announced that the majority of his philanthropic Gates Foundation's $200 billion (€175 billion) endowment will be spent in Africa over the next two decades.
Gates, who on May 8 said he would wind down the foundation by 2045, made the pledge while addressing African leaders in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
"I recently made a commitment that my wealth will be given away over the next 20 years. The majority of that funding will be spent on helping you address challenges here in Africa," Gates said as he urged leaders to boost health and development through partnership and innovation.
"By unleashing human potential through health and education, every country in Africa should be on a path to prosperity… and that path is an exciting thing to be part of," Gates told government officials, diplomats and health workers.
Gates makes pitch as US government slashes aid
"Investing in primary healthcare has the greatest impact on health and wellbeing," he said. "With primary healthcare, what we've learned is that helping the mother be healthy and have great nutrition before she gets pregnant, while she is pregnant, delivers the strongest results. Ensuring the child receives good nutrition in their first four years as well makes all the difference."
US businessman-philanthropist Gates singled out Ethiopia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Zambia and Zimbabwe as examples of countries that to his mind show strong leadership fostering innovation. He did not comment on allegations of authoritarianism and rights abuses against the governments of, for example, Ethiopia and Rwanda.
"Our foundation has an increasing commitment to Africa," Gates said. "Our first African office was here in Ethiopia about 13 years ago. Now we have offices in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal. That's a great way for us to strengthen partnerships."
Gates' pitch comes amid halts to US foreign aid on the advice of US President Donald Trump's donor and budget oversight advisor, Elon Musk — the world's richest man — who bragged of "feeding USAID to the wood chipper."
A recent study in the medical journal The Lancet projected that cuts to American spending on PEPFAR — the program to deliver HIV and AIDS relief abroad — could cost the lives of 500,000 children by 2030. The journal Nature suggested a sustained halt to US aid funding could result in some 25 million additional deaths over 15 years.
The Gates Foundation has invested heavily in projects aimed at reducing childhood and maternal deaths; advancing progress on vaccines for infectious disease, such as malaria or HIV; as well as lifting poor populations out of poverty.
The foundation claims that it has contributed to more than 100 innovations that have saved more than 80 million lives, citing partnerships with GAVI and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Gates says 'rich should do more in philanthropy'
Gates, who made his fortune with the computer software company Microsoft and started the Gates Foundation with his ex-wife, Melinda, has urged other wealthy individuals to spend their money on humanity not just personal possessions.
When recently asked by The New York Times about why he is donating his fortune he first said, "It makes a big difference to take the money and spend it now versus later," pointing to its impact on developments in agriculture and AI.
"What am I going to do?" he added, "Just go buy a bunch of boats or something? Go gamble? This money should go back to society in the way that it has the best chance of causing something positive to happen."
"And I do think good examples influence other people. I think the rich people today should do more philanthropy, and we have some examples of that. And I think the rich people 20 years from now should do more in philanthropy."
While in Africa, Gates will also meet with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to talk about AI and health care reform in their respective countries.
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