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To Empower Women, Don’t Forget the Men

May 17, 2013 / Reverend Songaye George-Buanne

This is no ordinary school, and its lessons will not soon be forgotten. The men of Binkolo village are attending “husband school,” a project of the Fambul Initiative Network for Equality (FINE). They are learning new ways to relate to their wives and daughters, which could have far-reaching benefits for their families—and for the people of Sierra Leone.

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In an Unpredictable HIV Vaccine Search, Hope Still Reigns

May 17, 2013 / Mitchell Warren

Nothing about AIDS vaccine research and development has ever been easy or straightforward except for one simple truth: to end the AIDS epidemic we will ultimately need an effective vaccine.

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Gossip Girls: No Longer A Frivolous Pasttime

May 17, 2013 / Sarah Cole Kammerer

The concept is such: bring women together as a group to discuss maternal health problems facing their communities.

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Family Health "Check Up" 2013: Lessons Learned

May 17, 2013 / Gary Darmstadt, Wolfgang Munar, Brian Siems

As we prepared for our annual strategy reviews in Family Health, we took the time to reflect on what we’ve learned over the past year.

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Family Health "Check Up": Looking Forward

May 17, 2013 / Gary Darmstadt, Wolfgang Munar

This year’s strategy review process provided an opportunity to look back and reflect on successes and failures in an effort to improve our performance and increase our impact in Family Health. As a result, our outlook includes two cross-cutting areas that we found critical for achieving lasting impact at scale.

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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." —Melinda Gates

  • The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

  • "The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter

  • "When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates

  • In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.

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