Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
MELINDA GATESA 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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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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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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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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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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We [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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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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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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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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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