Bill Gates has sparked controversy with his suggestion that the world’s population should be reduced through the use of vaccines. In a TEDx presentation two years ago, the Microsoft billionaire argued that investment in healthcare and reproductive health services could reduce the population by 10-15%. He suggested that instead of spending money on those who are nearing the end of their lives, the funds should be used elsewhere to benefit people. Gates’ comments have been met with shock and criticism from many quarters.
At the 2010 Davos World Economic Forum, Bill Gates announced that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would donate $10 billion (€7.5 billion) over the next decade to develop and deliver vaccines to children in the developing world.
The foundation is a founding member of the GAVI Alliance (Global Alliance for Vaccinations and Immunization), a partnership between the World Bank, WHO and the vaccine industry, with the goal of vaccinating every newborn child in the developing world. However, the vaccine industry has been accused of forcing dangerous, untested or proven harmful vaccines onto Third World populations. In May 2009, The London Times reported that some of the world’s wealthiest people, including Bill Gates, met in New York to discuss reducing the world’s population. Gates outlined a project to reduce the world’s population by one billion, or 11 percent.
Bill Gates’ father, William S. Gates, Sr., is the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a founding father of the Eugenics movement and Planned Parenthood. The foundation is also financing the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), headed by former UN chief, Kofi Annan. AGRA is dominated by people from the Gates’ and Rockefeller foundations, and is backed by major GMO agribusiness giants. Dr. Robert Horsch, a 25-year Monsanto GMO veteran, is responsible for introducing GMO seeds into Africa.
Health experts argue that if the Gates Foundation truly wanted to improve the health and well-being of black Africans, the same hundreds of millions of dollars invested in vaccines could be used to provide minimal sanitary water and sewage systems, which would revolutionize the health conditions of the continent.
