Nobody knows exactly how many lives the Gates Foundation has saved. The Guardiansays it’s some appreciable fraction of the 122 million lives saved in general from progress fighting infectious diseases over the last few decades. This article says Gates has saved seven million people through his vaccination campaign alone, provided another seven million with antiretroviral treatment (usually life-saving), “tested and treated” twelve million people for tuberculosis (often fatal, but there’s a big difference between testing and treatment), and been responsible for a big part of the seven million lives saved from malaria. I expect these numbers are inflated, but even by conservative estimates the Gates Foundation may have saved ten million people.
In your sheet, you seem to count it as zero (without any formula, it’s hard coded zero)
Thanks for commeting. I agree the Gates Foundation has saved many lives, but I am very unsure about the sign of global health and development interventions for the reasons I point to here.
I think Bill Gates’ donations are probably very high impact, not zero.
Example source:
Against Against Billionaire Philanthropy / Scott Alexander
In your sheet, you seem to count it as zero (without any formula, it’s hard coded zero)
Hi Yonatan,
Thanks for commeting. I agree the Gates Foundation has saved many lives, but I am very unsure about the sign of global health and development interventions for the reasons I point to here.