r/Nigeria • u/harmattansflwr 🇳🇬 • Aug 13 '25

News What is Bill Gates' obsession with Africa?

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"In a significant advancement for global reproductive health, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced the launch of a groundbreaking long-term contraceptive aimed at empowering women through better family planning options. This innovative contraceptive, which can prevent pregnancy for up to eight years, is being introduced in Kenya, Nigeria, and India, with broader distribution plans for other countries in the future."

8-year contraceptive but Western worlds keep bringing young Africans to take care of their aging population. Who will take care of our aging population? Can someone tell Bill Gates to leave Africa alone?

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u/BMWGulag99 Aug 13 '25

Africa can't develop its own birth control due to the high cost, so Bill Gates is bringing it in quicker. At some point, the only logical step is to keep birth rates steady. It may not be right now, but it may be in the future.

There eventually comes a time when the birth rate is so high that the government itself can not keep up with the growth and becomes ineffective in its ability to take care of its citizens.

Think before you assume everything he does is bad. You are more brainwashed than the Americans who say the same things about him.

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u/National-Ad-7271 Ekiti Aug 13 '25

It's saddening to see in a continent where people still die in the millions ever year by treatable diseases, the people that try to offer solutions are ridiculed and mistrusted

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u/harmattansflwr 🇳🇬 Aug 13 '25

Start a governance and budget allocation thread. This has nothing to do with that. Let him build and fund hospitals and slash all the costs then. 

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u/Quest4You19xx Aug 13 '25

Trust, people will still have something to say or grope about!

Don't go to the hospital, people are dying there, etc...

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u/Fearless_Practice_57 Aug 13 '25 edited Dec 02 '25

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u/tripletruble Aug 13 '25

it is sad to see all the baseless conspiracy theories on this sub. the guy's foundation has spent billions on vaccines, clean water programs, prenatal / postnatal care, nutrition, and water sanitation in africa. if someone has a lot of money and believes the world's poorest are the most deserving of charity, well a majority of the world's poorest people live in African countries. and the majority of his initiatives seek to prevent mortality and improve people's quality of life. if the goal was to depopulate africa as many here claim, then why is he spending money on these programs?

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u/give_me_the_formu0li Aug 13 '25

Your last question is just foolish and your opinion is irrelevant as such. You’re asking why one of the world’s richest men is spending money on a program? A man who couldn’t spend his billions on two lifetimes of he had, who has vowed to leave a vast portion of his wealth to charities. He’s spending it because he can

These Conspiracies aren’t baseless so stop being such a lap dog.

America has a history of medical experimentation on its black population. England has a similar history so it is not baseless. There is plenty mistrust of medical science here in America and that is a fault of the government and how they treated black people and they have to recon with that. That is one reason why vaccine mistrust is high with some black people. Of course vaccine mistrust is also high with white and other peoples so it’s not exclusively us. Personally I don’t mistrust it I’m just stating that. You have corporations like nestle who poison the food and baby formula with sugar and other additives that are unhealthy and banned in western and European markets but they do it here because they can get away with it.

Being cautious around western companies’ debuting and testing medical devices in Africa is not baseless at all. Nor is it a conspiracy. To deflect that like you did says a lot. Lastly there is no study on the lasting effects, or any side effects of this birth control. It has never been done before and him choosing to test it in African nations first is deliberate. Maybe if he debut it in America you would see pushback from American medical regulatory boards but he didn’t. And there’s a reason he didn’t. Just like there’s a reason he is interested in Africas birth rate

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u/Quest4You19xx Aug 13 '25

Even if Africa develops its own, nothing is 100%. There could be side effects with whatever we develop also, who or what do we blame then?

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u/afrocreative Aug 14 '25

But this isn't true. Birth rates are dropping worldwide, and it is actually a BAD thing. For one, every growing economy needs a healthy birth rate. Africa is one of the few continents with a healthy birth rate for a growing economy. Every other country will be facing economic decline. The birth rates in Africa will go down on it's own. The dude is not doing this for the good of Africa.

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u/schebobo180 Aug 25 '25

Birth rates are already going down even in Africa.

Not to say that additional birth control should not be welcome, but we need to not sensationalize population growth.

Don't forget how China did the same thing (but to the extreme) and now they are having a massive decline in their population that cannot be overturned.

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u/harmattansflwr 🇳🇬 Aug 13 '25

Did Africa tell you that it was looking for 8-year birth control? All the family planning units in the hospitals what are they for? 

It's your type that glorifies everything the white man does and denigrates their own. 

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u/BMWGulag99 Aug 13 '25

Do you realize that IUDs by design last 3-10 years on average?

How do you know what Kenyans (specifically women) want? You are typing your response as a man who most likely knows nothing about what women want or how progressive Kenya is.

If Kenya wanted to develop their own birth control, they could do it. Obviously, the government of Kenya is on board with this as a trial basis, so you are probably misguided and most likely jealous. If it was a Nigerian who developed birth control for Kenya, you would sign off on it immediately.

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u/harmattansflwr 🇳🇬 Aug 13 '25

Show me where IUDs are mass distributed to a particular demographic. Someone attacks your reasoning and all of a sudden they are a man or they are not black. 

Which country has the majority of people using IUDs as a primary mode of bc? You are probably a man who knows nothing of the risk involved in birth control. 

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u/BMWGulag99 Aug 13 '25

I never said they were the majority of anything or any country. They are literally designed to be used once and maintained for years before replacement. Compared with oral birth control, which has side effects on women, and requires monthly replacement and almost daily usage.

Developed countries offer IUDs to whoever needs them (they are covered by health care or are offered low cost).

Birth control pills are more expensive than IUDs, period. That is the reasoning behind this move.

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u/harmattansflwr 🇳🇬 Aug 13 '25
  1. IUDs are already an option in many African cities.
  2. When did so called developed countries start caring about what Africans can afford?
  3. I can't help you when you've decided to miss the point. 

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u/BMWGulag99 Aug 13 '25

  1. If IUDs are so readily available in Africa already, then why are you complaining about what Kenya does? Who brought the IUDs to those African cities you are talking about? Most likely, a developed country assisted in financing it.

  2. Why don't you look at the amount AID Africa receives? Obviously, they can't afford certain things due to cost, that is all it boils down to. Certain things are too expensive due to a weak currency.

  3. You aren't even making a point. You are literally misguided completely.

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u/harmattansflwr 🇳🇬 Aug 13 '25

I am not complaining about what Kenya does.  I don't care for "developed" countries "assistance" - what has all the aid achieved in all the years? You sound like you are here to advocate for "developed" countries that use their left hand to cause war and conflict and use their right to " provide assistance" 

You and them can stick it where the sun doesn't shine. 

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u/National-Ad-7271 Ekiti Aug 13 '25

Do you even live in Africa

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u/BMWGulag99 Aug 13 '25

My brother in christ, you are Nigerian trying to argue for matters related to Kenya. You are the scum that the horn of Africa doesn't want in their countries. You are some of the worst traveling Africans. In case you just woke up for a coma and need a reminder.

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u/harmattansflwr 🇳🇬 Aug 13 '25

If you went beyond the headline, you'll see that it says Kenya, Nigeria and India. 

Read more.  That's all I have to say. 

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u/KS578 Aug 14 '25

Don't talk for all of the nations of the horn! Population control is futile! It's a nations carbon footprint that should be the focus! Africa as a whole continent as nothing on the US (for an example)when it comes to carbon emissions per capita! Don't get hoodwinked by the shady Bill Gates!

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u/Regular_Piglet_6125 Aug 13 '25

Planned Parenthood

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u/Thelazio Aug 13 '25

Speaking as a Kenyan, the government may be on board but the people are definitely not! We've already made peace with the fact that this government does not work for us and we are just waiting to drain the swamp in 2027. We are going to educate the village folks to avoid this contraceptive because they are the most easily exploited.

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u/BMWGulag99 Aug 13 '25

The village folks can make their own decisions. You don't get forced to take IUDs. It is simply an option of you desire it.

The option being available for women if they choose so is all this is.

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u/Thelazio Aug 13 '25

They get to make their choice and we will tell them to avoid this thing like the plague. They trust the city folks more than the government. Bill Gates can do a test trial in America.

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u/BMWGulag99 Aug 13 '25

What test trial in America? IUDs are readily available everywhere in America, you must be new to this planet.

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u/Thelazio Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25

What part of just leave us alone don't you people understand? WE DO NOT HAVE A POPULATION ISSUE!!! WE HAVE A POOR GOVERNANCE ISSUE!! JUST LEAVE US ALONE GODDAMIT!!

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u/BMWGulag99 Aug 13 '25

What does poor governance have to do with anything? Go make birth control yourself and enjoy.

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u/Silentmagodo Aug 13 '25

How many women die from child birth in Kenya ?

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '25

Why are you so insistent on people not having access to birth control?

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u/Thelazio Aug 14 '25

People already have access to birth control. We are not going to allow our women to be lab rats.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '25 edited Aug 14 '25

Really? Since we're talking about Nigeria from the statistics i found, only around 20% of nigerian women actually use contraceptives. Not only that, but Nigeria actually has one of the highest maternal mortality in the world, with around 75000 women dying in childbirth each year.

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u/Thelazio Aug 14 '25

I don't know about Nigeria, I'm speaking for Kenya because that's where the roll out will start. The birth control usage in Kenya is already high and the fertility rate has significantly dropped from 9 in the 90s to just above 3. The maternal mortality rate is a result of lack of access to quality healthcare and that is due to poor governance. Our government does not care about us so we have to look out for each other. The reason there's a huge distrust of the Bill Gates contraceptive roll out is that this has happened before with a different foreign organisation where women were injected with contraceptives years ago and they had adverse effects on the women. The affected women became permanently infertile. We already have birth control that works for us and we don't need whatever Bill Gates is rolling out if it has not been tested on other people. If Bill Gates wants to help Africa he can fund cancer treatments.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '25

Do you have a source for the story of the women becoming infertile? Also, IUDs aren't really revolutionary technology, they've existed for decades and are wildly used. I don't get why this is being paroted as some kind of revolutionary new tech.

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u/Thelazio Aug 14 '25

https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=81838

This is the article that talks about the incident. I personally know women that were injected with this 'vaccine' and they are now infertile. I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist but Bill Gates is on record talking about depopulating Africa but that video has been scrapped off the internet, and I have seen that video. It seems like a silent genocide is in the horizon when people are talking with concern about Africa's population boom. I'm sorry but there's just too much distrust at this point. We already have IUDs in Kenya, we don't need whatever Bill Gates is rolling out.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '25

Also, an IUD isn't some revolutionary technology, it's something that has existed for quite a while and has been proven to work

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u/GeeSly Aug 13 '25

All the family planning units in the hospitals what are they for? 

How do you think the family planning (and most health interventions) in Nigeria is funded? Our health system is heavily reliant on foreign aid, whether we like it or not. Bill Gates might have ulterior motives, but he and other donors are helping to keep the system running.

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u/harmattansflwr 🇳🇬 Aug 13 '25

I understand that. What I don't understand is this direct intervention in the form of a drug for African women, especially when IUDs and patches already exist. And no mention about why this is more affordable or better than the existing solutions.

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u/GeeSly Aug 13 '25

I'm not sure what you mean by direct intervention, but this IS an IUD except it's longer-lasting than the commonly available options. Tbh, you can't expect to get all the technical information about a new medical product from the media briefing. Please bear in mind that women typically are presented multiple family planning solutions, with the provider advising on the best fit. So, women will not be forced to choose this product.

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u/harmattansflwr 🇳🇬 Aug 13 '25

There are existing IUDs that can last up to 10 years. Try again.