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Health

A demostration of a Sure Start Project initiative to promote maternal and newborn health in Kathghara Village, Fatehpur District, U.P., India.
What Does it Take to Save a Life? How About a Game?

May 18, 2012 by Sita Shankar Wunnava

The woman in the green sari leans over the game of Snakes and Ladders and throws the dice. The women around her groan as she reads the words on the square where she lands.

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Poverty

Members of a farmers cooperative gather together outside the organization's headquarters in Musaza Village, Rwanda.
President Obama and Bill Gates on Fighting Hunger and Poverty

May 18, 2012 by Sam Dryden

The challenges smallholder farmers in the developing world face are considerable yet not insurmountable.

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Education

Math teacher Doris Zuniz
My Favorite Teacher? Don't Make Me Choose

May 11, 2012 by Chelsea Clinton

I hope someday to have students feel about me the way I feel about Mrs. Mitchell!

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Welcome to Impatient Optimists

August 03, 2011 / Melinda Gates

In my work at the foundation, I’m proud to highlight voices of the global effort to alleviate poverty, promote health, and ensure that every student in the U.S. has an effective teacher. Witnessing this life-saving work firsthand has made me an optimist.

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Topics Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health
Country Tanzania

India Promotes Home-Based Newborn Care

July 20, 2011 / Gary Darmstadt

This month the Government of India (GOI) made a landmark decision to provide an incentive payment to accredited social health activists (ASHAs) to conduct routine home-based newborn care. Why is it so momentous?

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Category Health
Topics Advocacy & Public Policy, Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health
Country India

Simple Solutions Save Lives

June 19, 2010 / Tachi Yamada

Safeguarding the health of mothers and children must be one of the world’s most urgent priorities. Fortunately, we are seeing some great progress.

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Category Health
Topics Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health

In Bangladesh, Empowering Villagers to Save Infant Lives

June 08, 2010 / Gary Darmstadt

As a gynecologist in Bangladesh, Dr. Ferdousi Begum saw firsthand the effects of that country’s staggering infant mortality rate.

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Category Health
Topics Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health

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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.