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The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child’s health.

Melinda Gates

If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It’s a man. Who’s left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.
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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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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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My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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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The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child’s health.

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The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child’s health.

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