# The Gates Foundation pledges additional funds against West African Ebola

Date: 2014

## The fact

In September 2014 the Gates Foundation pledged additional tens of millions against the West African Ebola outbreak, a completed emergency-health instrument while [Gates](/people/bill-gates) was still Microsoft chairman.

## Context

WHO had declared an emergency. Neighbouring 2008 full-time shift is the calendar. Neighbouring CEPI 2017 is later outbreak-finance architecture. He did not write a CDC order.

GAVI 2000 is neighbouring immunisation. CEPI 2017 is later outbreak R&D.

Bill Gates was Microsoft CEO until January 2000, chairman until February 2014, then a technical adviser until 2020, and a Gates Foundation co-chair. That is not authorship of every Windows copy, every GAVI dose, or every IRS schedule. Melinda French Gates is a different person. Bill Clinton is PER-000772, a different person. A pledge is not a coverage rate. A docket is not a personality.

## Evidence and sources

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [pandemic-preparedness](/drivers/pandemic-preparedness) and infectious-disease-transmission: a completed emergency pledge is an outbreak-finance instrument. A pledge is not a treatment.

## What is established and what is not

Established: September 2014 Ebola pledges, independently reported.

Not established: that Ebola ended that week, or a unique later fatality coefficient from the press release.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

WHO and MSF operated. National ministries treated. He did not staff every ETU.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies The Gates Foundation pledges additional funds against West African Ebola, not a later speech about The Gates Foundation pledges additional funds against West African Ebola.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. The Gates Foundation pledges additional funds against West African Ebola on 2014-09-11 is not a licence to treat every later Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average The Gates Foundation pledges additional funds against West African Ebola into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to His foundation pledged. WHO and MSF operated. National ministries treated. He did not staff every ETU. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Bill Gates: https://factrail.ai/people/bill-gates

## Drivers

- Pandemic Preparedness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/pandemic-preparedness
- Infectious-Disease Transmission: https://factrail.ai/drivers/infectious-disease-transmission

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-ebola-gates-idUSKBN0H62K420140911
- https://www.gatesfoundation.org/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/gates-ebola-2014