Impatient Optimists
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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Family Health "Check Up": Looking Forward

May 17, 2013 / Gary Darmstadt, Wolfgang Munar

This year’s strategy review process provided an opportunity to look back and reflect on successes and failures in an effort to improve our performance and increase our impact in Family Health. As a result, our outlook includes two cross-cutting areas that we found critical for achieving lasting impact at scale.

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MamaYe: Riding the Digital Revolution in Africa for Women and Newborns

April 17, 2013 / Louise Hulton

For over 25 years there has been painfully slow progress in the life chances for a pregnant woman or her newborn in Africa. Yet we know why women and newborns are dying.

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Let Every Woman's Voice Ring

March 04, 2013 / Frida Giannini

Announcement and details of Chime for Change, founded by Gucci, and it's mission to focus on girls' and women's empowerment around the world.

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Planning a Family, Transforming a Nation

January 17, 2013 / Courtney E. Martin

Courtney Martin reports on the strides of President Banda's campaign to empower women in Malawi.

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President Joyce Banda: New Focus on Women’s Health and Empowerment in Malawi

January 10, 2013 / Janet Fleischman, Julia Nagel

An interview with President Joyce Banda, regarding women leaders' role in brining new attention to women's health and empowerment.

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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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