Apply for the Gates Foundation AI Family Planning Grant 2026 - US$500,000 Funding Available
The Gates Foundation is offering grants of up to $500,000 for projects that utilize AI-powered conversational tools to improve family planning and contraceptive access in sub-Saharan Africa. The initiative seeks to bridge the evidence gap regarding how large language models can provide personalized reproductive health information.
Why it matters
Leveraging AI for health communication could overcome barriers to reproductive healthcare in underserved regions, providing scalable and personalized support to women and girls.
Applications are now open for the AI-Enabled Consumer Engagement to Advance Family Planning Request for Proposals (RFP), offering grants of up to US$500,000 for projects that generate practical evidence on how AI-powered conversations can improve contraceptive uptake, informed decision-making, and continuation of family planning services.
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming global health, and the Gates Foundation Grand Challenges initiative is now seeking innovative organisations to demonstrate how AI can improve access to family planning information across sub-Saharan Africa.
The initiative represents a major investment in understanding how advances in large language models (LLMs) and conversational AI can help overcome longstanding barriers to reproductive healthcare by providing personalised, multilingual, and accessible information to women and girls across Africa.
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