Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.
MELINDA GATESThe premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can’t even yet agree on what their laws should be.
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Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
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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.
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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.
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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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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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All lives have an equal value.
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Women are the centre of the family. It’s the woman who decides what’s eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children’s health revolves around her.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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