Impatient Optimists
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Photo of the Day: Thank You to All Global Health Workers

Gates Foundation
September 18, 2012

A child receives an oral polio vaccine administered by a house-to-house polio vaccination team near Kano, Nigeria. 2010 marks the 30th anniversary of making smallpox history. The lasting contributions of the smallpox vaccination campaign remind us that we already have the tools and the knowledge to eradicate polio and measles and dramatically reduce other vaccine preventable diseases. (Kano, Nigeria, 2010)

Thank You to All Global Health Workers

 
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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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