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Theresa Shaver

Title President and Executive Director
Organization White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood

Theresa Shaver is the president and executive director of the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood.

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The World Needs Midwives – Now More Than Ever

May 05, 2011 / Theresa Shaver

It was in 1980, in a nomadic community in Mauritania, that I first attended a woman during birth. There, I experienced with her the fragile balance of life and death and the sweet joy of a mother embracing her healthy newborn daughter.

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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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