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.
MELINDA GATESSometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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That’s universal – we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what’s not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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All lives have an equal value.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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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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Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
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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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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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