The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has committed millions to the improvement of health outcomes in developing countries through vaccination campaigns, becoming a prominent target of the anti-vaccine groups. During the last decade, the foundation has been also involved in the development of health-related technology which, along with its active support of the research of COVID-19 treatments and vaccines during the outbreak, has arisen conspiracy theories worldwide. The claim that Gates wants to use COVID-19 vaccines to track the population are unsupported. The vaccines used in the initiatives funded by the Gates Foundation in Africa and Asia were approved and safe.