Pakistan, Aug. 5 -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged $2.5 billion to improve women's health around the world by 2030. The announcement highlights the need to focus on diseases that affect women but are often ignored. The money will be used to support treatment, prevention, and research into several common but overlooked conditions. These include pregnancy-related high blood pressure, high blood sugar levels, and menopause-related issues. The foundation stressed that many of these diseases are treatable but still cause thousands of avoidable deaths.

Bill Gates said many women die from conditions that could be easily managed with proper care. He explained that women's health problems are often ignored in global health system...