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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.

Melinda Gates

All lives have an equal value.
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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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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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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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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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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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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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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