Recently, I visited Japan and spoke with some of your country’s top leaders in government and in the life sciences sector.
While I was there, I made a case I’ve been making to leaders everywhere I go, in my own country and around the globe: Over the quarter-century that I’ve been leading the Gates Foundation, the world’s largest foundation dedicated to global health, I’ve never experienced a more critical moment for health innovation than the one we are living in right now.
After decades of investment from companies and countries around the world, we are on the cusp of breakthroughs across many of the world’s deadliest diseases — from tuberculosis to malaria to HIV. Yet just as we’re on the cusp of so much potential, many world powers are pulling back.
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