Impatient Optimists
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Michele Ernsting

Title Coordinator
Organization Love Matters

Michele Ernsting is the initiator of Love Matters and an award-winning journalist in the field of human rights and international law. Two years ago, she swapped grave crimes and violations for sexual health and pleasure.

“Sexual health rights are among the most neglected around the world. Love Matters can improve people's daily lives by putting information they can use in the palm of their hand." 

Love Matters is a project of Radio Netherlands Worldwide.

Posts By Michele Ernsting

Empowering Women's Reproductive Lives

April 16, 2012 / Michele Ernsting

Melinda Gates, you’re right! Women should have access to the contraceptive or family planning method of their choice. And yes, it should be the most normal thing in 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." —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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