Bill and Melinda Gates Grade the World’s Health<br />Global Health By<br />DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.<br />SEPT. 18, 2017<br />Bill and Melinda Gates handed the world a report card last week, assessing its progress on<br />18 global health indicators: infant mortality, AIDS, vaccine use, smoking rates and so on.<br />ee generation" – all the rage six years ago — were "premature," he said, and he was "embarrassed" by claims<br />that malaria could be eliminated by 2015. that AIDS-fr<br />He was impressed." The new report’s weakness is that it cannot, for example, foretell how many more Ugandans would die of AIDS if American donations dropped 20 percent, in the way<br />that the Congressional Budget Office can calculate how many Americans will lose insurance under a particular health care bill.<br />Called "Goalkeepers," the report was a huge statistical effort, three years in the making, aimed<br />squarely at the world leaders gathering at the United Nations General Assembly this month.<br />"Goalkeepers" refers to a metric that the world ignores<br />but the Gateses do not: the targets periodically set by the United Nations, namely the 2000 Millennium Development Goals and the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals.
