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.
MELINDA GATESI care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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.
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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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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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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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 learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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