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.
MELINDA GATESAs a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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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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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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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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Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work.
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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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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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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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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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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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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A 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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family’s well-being – as much as 10 times more.
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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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