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WASH United Defeats Diarrhea, 3-0!

November 16, 2011 / Thorsten Kiefer

Preventable diseases caused by a lack of toilets and poor hygiene kill the equivalent of eight 747’s filled with children every day.

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Ending Global Hunger Is Possible

November 02, 2011 / Rick Leach

This week the Earth became home to 7 billion people, leaving many experts to wonder how we will provide for the most basic needs of the next generation of global citizens.

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Lessons from Coca-Cola to Prevent Cholera

March 17, 2011 / Melinda Gates

Last year, in a talk I gave a talk at TEDxChange, I argued that we could learn a lot in global health and development by studying Coca-Cola’s success in poor countries around the world. This week, I saw Coke’s operations in Nairobi for myself. I visited in order to understand how we could adapt their methods to make us more effective in delivering health care.

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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 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

  • The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

  • 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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