Impatient Optimists
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Rio+20: Highlighting the Voices of Women

June 18, 2012 / Corine Milano

In partnership with the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), World Pulse collected personal stories from grassroots women leaders worldwide, outlining their perspectives on sustainable and equitable development for presentation at the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development June 20-22.

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Preventing Pneumonia in The Gambia

November 11, 2011 / Richard Adegbola

The Gambia is a success story--living proof that vaccines can reduce hospital admissions from pneumonia and save the lives of children. Vaccines that prevent pneumonia allow these children to achieve their potential in life, which is every child’s right.

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Saving the Youngest Children

February 17, 2011 / Gary Darmstadt

As Melinda blogged about on Monday, a new pneumococcal vaccine has been introduced in Kenya, which will protect thousands of children from pneumonia—the leading killer of children under five. This is terrific progress for Kenyan families.

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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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