Impatient Optimists
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HE Toyin Saraki

Title Board of Directors
Organization White Ribbon Alliance Nigeria

H.E. Toyin Saraki is the Chairperson for the White Ribbon Alliance Nigeria Board of Directors.

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Nigeria's Step Forward: Health Workers to Provide Contraceptives

July 26, 2012 / HE Toyin Saraki

On Thursday, the National Council on Health approved a task sharing policy that will allow community health extension workers to provide injectable contraceptives in communities.

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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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