{"id":215988,"date":"2025-12-07T14:33:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T12:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-global-health-funding-cuts-could-cause-16-million-child-deaths-by-2045-gates-foundation\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T14:33:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T12:33:39","slug":"nigeria-global-health-funding-cuts-could-cause-16-million-child-deaths-by-2045-gates-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-global-health-funding-cuts-could-cause-16-million-child-deaths-by-2045-gates-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Global Health Funding Cuts Could Cause 16 Million Child Deaths By 2045 &#8211; Gates Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">In his comments cited in the report, Bill Gates, the chair of the Gates Foundation, noted that, despite tight budgets, the world can still make a significant difference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Global health funding cuts could reverse decades of progress in child survival and lead to the deaths of millions of children, the Gates Foundation has warned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">In its 2025 Goalkeepers Report, titled &#8220;We Can&#8217;t Stop at Almost,&#8221; the foundation highlighted that for the first time this century, the number of children dying before their&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512050389.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his comments cited in the report, Bill Gates, the chair of the Gates Foundation, noted that, despite tight budgets, the world can still make a significant difference. Global health funding cuts could reverse decades of progress in child survival and lead to the deaths of millions of children, the Gates Foundation has warned. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":215989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661660:224e0369f10f0c506aa29e29a153ae80:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,8438,7210,8601,5265,6141,33226,6212,5731,5118,257,4687,393,254],"class_list":["post-215988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-child","tag-cuts","tag-deaths","tag-foundation","tag-funding","tag-gates","tag-global","tag-health","tag-million","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661660:224e0369f10f0c506aa29e29a153ae80:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}