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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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Take Action: Respectful Maternity Care is a Universal Right

January 10, 2012 / Rima Jolivet

Every woman deserves respectful maternity care - and Gates Foundation partner White Ribbon Alliance, with all of you, can help ensure this!

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Topics Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health

To Save the Children, UK “Mummy Blogger” Journeys to Africa

June 02, 2011 / Tracey Cheetham

I'm not sure I will adequately explain how I feel about travelling to Mozambique. I have been to several southern African countries before, but never Mozambique.

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Topics Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health, Vaccines
Country Mozambique

We Are All Accountable to Our Mothers

May 06, 2011 / Flavia Bustreo

Mother's Day serves to focus the world's attention on motherhood and to honour mothers around the world. But we should not just focus attention on a particular day or year.

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Topics Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health

The World Needs Midwives – Now More Than Ever

May 05, 2011 / Theresa Shaver

It was in 1980, in a nomadic community in Mauritania, that I first attended a woman during birth. There, I experienced with her the fragile balance of life and death and the sweet joy of a mother embracing her healthy newborn daughter.

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Topics Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health

What Is the State of the World’s Mothers in 2011?

May 04, 2011 / Mary Beth Powers

What do Democrats and Republicans, religious leaders and a secular bio-ethicist all have in common? Any guesses?

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Category Health
Topics Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health
Country Sierra Leone

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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.