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 GATESBirth 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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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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I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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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.
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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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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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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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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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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All lives have an equal value.
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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.
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With economic opportunity, sometimes it’s making sure that if they’re not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.
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