Health expert Bill Gates about the Sustainable Development Goals

"Well, I will say that when we set the current goals, the United Nations, which are called the Sustainable Development Goals, we didn't anticipate a pandemic. We didn't anticipate the financial difficulties that the African countries would find themselves in, paying more in interest than they can for health and education. And we didn't anticipate the wars that have broken out, both Ukraine and several others, including the Middle East. And so, The goals we set for 2030, you look back and it feels a bit naive, but every life saved really counts. Here we're talking about millions of lives. We're talking about making these countries stable, having health systems so that if potential pandemics getting started, they can stop it before it spreads globally. So not only the moral benefits, but the global benefits are pretty strong. It's harder today than it was a few years ago to get through the noise level, to get this cause to be heard. But because it's about helping other humans, I think we'll succeed. We're very committed to it."