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When we better understand the realities of these women’s lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.

Melinda Gates

In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.
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Different Family Place Planning Time Vaccine
Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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Believe Health Myself Problem Solution
You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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Children Medicine Save Vaccine Yourself
As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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Children Love Parents Responsible Vaccinate Yourself
Philanthropy is not about the money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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Difficult Remark Search Strength Strong Voice Woman
Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can’t get her to come and get them then they won’t work.
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Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that a mom doesn’t die in childbirth, making sure that she has access, for instance, to AIDS medication.
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Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work.
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Affective Believe Evidence Government Myself Place Start Work
Government funding that’s coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It’s really palpable – it’s making a huge difference saving lives.
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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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