Impatient Optimists
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Kristin Savard

Title Program Development and Strategy Coordinator
Organization White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood

Kristin Savard is program development and strategy coordinator for the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood.

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Take Action for Global Stillbirth

June 28, 2011 / Kristin Savard

This month, the White Ribbon Alliance (WRA) has partnered with Healthy Newborn Network (HNN) to draw attention to the 2.6 million stillbirths that occur worldwide each year. This past April, The Lancet launched a new series on stillbirths to draw attention to a public health crisis that has been widely overlooked.

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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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