"Global health and vaccine expert" Bill Gates

We do have on our side lots of new innovations, ways of preventing women from getting cervical cancer, the HPV vaccine, ways of preventing women from getting HIV, a shot that you only have to take twice a year, a trial of a TB vaccine. I could go on and on. The innovation pipeline is as strong today for health and malnutrition as it's ever been in any time.
The limiting factor, therefore, is not the science. It's the funding. After decades of expanding, funding for global health is now contracting. This year, amongst the top donors, including EU, Germany, France, the US, and others, over $9 billion has been cut from aid budgets. I understand the budget pressures the reasons that that happened. But that really challenges us. And we really need to make the case that ideally, that over time, as there's flexibility, these budgets go back to the increases that we saw before."