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.
MELINDA GATESWomen and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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All lives have an equal value.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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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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It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
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Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
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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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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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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