It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
MELINDA GATESAs a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don’t die of diarrhea anymore, but it’s a huge problem in the developing world.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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 around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn’t realize it was at the peak at the time.
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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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As a woman finds economic opportunity, even if she’s only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it on her phone, she then makes different decisions for her household than her husband might.
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If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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