• Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk's cuts to USAID of endangering children's lives.
• Gates highlights a specific instance involving funding for HIV prevention in Mozambique.
• The Gates Foundation plans to spend $200 billion in global health initiatives over the next 20 years.

In a recent interview, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates harshly criticized Tesla CEO Elon Musk, accusing him of "killing the world's poorest children" due to significant cuts made to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) through Musk's initiative, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Gates stated, "The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one," highlighting how these funding cuts adversely affect global health initiatives, particularly in impoverished regions, according to Business Insider, HuffPost, The Hill, and AA.

Gates pointed to specific funding cuts in Mozambique, mentioning that Musk's decision resulted in the cancellation of grants to hospitals intended to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Musk initially claimed that these funds were supporting the distribution of condoms in Gaza, a mistake he later acknowledged. Gates expressed his regret over the decision, stating, "I’d love for him to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut that money," according to India Times and HuffPost.

As part of his ongoing philanthropic efforts, Gates announced plans to dedicate almost all his wealth—approximately $200 billion—over the next 20 years to tackle various global health issues before closing the Gates Foundation by 2045. He emphasized that private philanthropy could not substitute for the substantial funding gap left by the cuts to USAID, which had a budget of $44 billion last year, according to Business Insider, The Hill, and AA.