Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
MELINDA GATESWe [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we’d invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I’ve probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.
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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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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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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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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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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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Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family’s well-being – as much as 10 times more.
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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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We look in our own backyard and say, ‘How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?’
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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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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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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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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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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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Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don’t get there by just pushing an outsider’s point of view.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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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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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.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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All lives have an equal value.
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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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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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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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