The CEO of the Gates Foundation said it will not change course in the face of the collapse of the foreign aid system but instead continue focusing on its main priorities. In an annual letter published Tuesday, Mark Suzman said the Gates Foundation will concentrate at least 70% of its funding on two areas: ending preventable maternal and child deaths and controlling key infectious diseases. In May, Bill Gates, who started the foundation with his ex-wife Melinda French Gates in 2000, announced it would close in 20 years. In his letter, Suzman, the CEO, gave more information about what programs would continue and which would end.
