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Exhibit 057

Who's leading WHO? A quantitative analysis of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's grants to WHO, 2000–2024

Exhibit 057 · Peer-reviewed study

Who's leading WHO? A quantitative analysis of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's grants to WHO, 2000–2024

All the 640 grants are earmarked for specific purposes.

Built a dataset of Gates Foundation grants to the WHO from the foundation's own website. The foundation made 640 grants worth $5.5 billion between 2000 and 2024 and supplied 9.5 percent of WHO revenues in 2010–2023. Of the $5.5 billion, $4.5 billion (82.6 percent) went to infectious diseases, $3.2 billion (58.9 percent) to polio, and $2.9 billion (53.3 percent) to vaccine programs.

Source
J. Kennedy and R. Thakrar, BMJ Global Health 10(10)
Date
28 October 2025
Quoted from
Findings, first paragraph
Grade
Peer-reviewed
Document
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2024-015343
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit

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Finding MED-2.7
Peer-reviewed The Gates Foundation gave the WHO $5.5 billion in 640 grants between 2000 and 2024. Every grant was earmarked, and 59 percent of the money went to polio.