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Vaccines Are An Act of Love

May 01, 2012 / Bill Gates Sr.

To put it simply, vaccines work. Vaccines give children a healthy start in life and to build more prosperous, communities. And nowhere is that more evident than in Honduras.

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Texting 4 Safe Vaccines in India

April 23, 2012 / Amie Newman

Indian scientists are just weeks away from testing a new technology to combat the possibility of vaccines going bad in the box: using SMS (texting) to alert health officials when the temperature inside a box of vaccines rises too high.

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Vaccinators Are the Real Heroes

April 20, 2012 / Karen Lowry Miller

Every day, on every continent—on bikes, boats, or donkeys, and often by foot—vaccinators devote long hours to making sure that children receive the live-saving vaccines they need.

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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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