Impatient Optimists
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Flavia Bustreo

Title Director, Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health
Organization World Health Organization

Dr. Flavia Bustreo is director of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health at the World Health Organization, in Geneva, Switzerland.

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We Are All Accountable to Our Mothers

May 06, 2011 / Flavia Bustreo

Mother's Day serves to focus the world's attention on motherhood and to honour mothers around the world. But we should not just focus attention on a particular day or year.

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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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