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The foundation's letter calls \"right now\" for the development of cheaper, zero-carbon-emissions energy sources.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Gates Foundation's annual letter was published online early Thursday. It looks ahead to a world where polio and Guinea worm, along with at least two others, will be eliminated.\u003cbr/\u003eIt will be a \"much better eradication track record in these 15 years than in all of human history,\" Bill Gates said in the interview Wednesday.\u003cbr/\u003ePolio could be the first to go. Africa hasn't had a case in the past six months, and with most of the cases recorded in Pakistan last year, the government there is stepping up, \"knowing they're last, the spotlight's on them,\" Gates said.\u003cbr/\u003eIt takes three years of no documented cases to certify that a disease has been eradicated, so the earliest that polio will be declared over is 2018.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It'll be 2018 or within one or two years of that,\" Gates said.\u003cbr/\u003eThe foundation has been assertive in the fight to end malaria as well, but that won't be achieved in the next 15 years, he said.\u003cbr/\u003eMelinda Gates spoke out strongly about another goal, cutting in half the number of deaths for children under 5. It was achieved between 1990 and now, and doing it again would bring the death rate to one child in 40 over the next decade and a half.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Sometimes these things don't make the headlines, but they should,\" she said.\u003cbr/\u003eThe couple said they plan to meet with World Health Organization chief Margaret Chan in at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The foundation last year announced it would spend $50 million on the emergency response to Ebola in West Africa, where both WHO and Chan have been criticized for their handling of the worst outbreak of the disease in history. More than 8,000 people have died.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think the biggest lesson coming out of the Ebola outbreak is we need to invest in primary health care centers, those little health posts that the people come in and they're referred up in the system,\" Melinda Gates said. \"Had those been functioning and working better in West Africa, the disease would have been contained much more quickly.\"\u003cbr/\u003eNew York - 21 January, 2015\u003cbr/\u003e1. Bill and Melinda Gates\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) Melinda Gates, Bill \u0026amp;amp; Melinda Gates Foundation\u003cbr/\u003e\"We believe that the lives of the poor will improve more in the next 15 years than at any time in history. And it's because of innovations in things like health, such as vaccines, innovations in farming, things like seeds getting out there more that are drought-resistant for instance. Digital banking, that is really become ubiquitous in the developing world. And also education, digital tools in the education sector. All four of those sectors, we're seeing incredible innovations. Really changing the lives of the poor fundamentally.\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. Bill and Melinda Gates\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) Bill Gates, Bill \u0026amp;amp; Melinda Gates Foundation\u003cbr/\u003e\" Given the success of the millenium development goals, a lot of people are saying ok, let's make sure we have an even bigger tent this year. And so the sustainable goals development document will be quite a bit longer. The NBGs were quite succinct. And that's great. Financial services will be in there. A lot of sanitation will be in there. Educational quality, as opposed to pure access, will be talked about more. And I think it's wonderful to have the world thinking about this report card. We hope in September we get the rich countries to step back and say ok, what's their part in this. And even individuals we call in this letter for people to sign up as global citizens so that we have their voice. They're connecting some piece of this.\u003cbr/\u003e5. Bill and Melinda Gates\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) Bill Gates, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation\u003cbr/\u003e\" Davos is a chance for both Melinda and I to sit down with key partners. I'll see George Osborne from the UK. They've been fantastic in increasing their aid even as they've had tough budget times and so talking to him about the great work they're enabling and how we strengthen that partnership. We'll meet with the head of the World Health Organization Margaret Chan who did a lot of good things in Ebola. Learned a lot of lessons about how they can respond faster with Ebola. We provide resources to them. They do a lot of the important work on polio and we talk about our tactics there and we meet with other philanthropists who we learn from and talk to them about what's worked well what we ought to do together so dozens of meetings about people who believe in this cause of reducing inequity and are really committing themselves.\u003cbr/\u003e7. 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