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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.

Melinda Gates

Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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Children Medicine Miracle Vaccine
I think it’s very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they’re growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
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Children Growth Important Myself Name Situation Thinking
If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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Economy Start Woman Yourself
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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Abortion Country Issues Law People Politics
You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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Children Medicine Save Vaccine Yourself
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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Development Help Kind Start Technology Woman
Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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Planning Pregnant Tools Woman World
Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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Children Desire Force Goodness Ourselves Society World
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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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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College Goal Goodness
Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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Affect Poverty Woman World
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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Children Different Sick Vaccine
Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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Connection Deep Humanity Oneself
Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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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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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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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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