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Photo of the Day: Nutrition is Vital to Children's Health

Gates Foundation
September 06, 2012

A child covered under ICDDR,B's Malnutrition-Enteric Disease (Mal-ED) Study is measured at a Community Nutrition Centre in the Mirpur locality (Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 2012).

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For more information on our work in nutrition, go to www.gatesfoundation.org/nutrition.

 
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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

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  • "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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