Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
MELINDA GATESNow we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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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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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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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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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it’s increasingly girls, not boys, who don’t know how to read.
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All lives have an equal value.
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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.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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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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