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.
MELINDA GATESNow, 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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If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?
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If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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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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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 can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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