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Proper nutrition improves children’s health and the quality of their lives for years to come. Two billion people in the developing world suffer due to poor nutrition. We’re working to improve diets of people in the developing world and ensure proper nutrition for young children and mothers.

Learn more below and visit the program page for more details about our work in this area.

 

Experiencing Living #BelowtheLine

Why would an employee of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation decide to live on £1 per day? Laurie Lee is participating in Live Below the Line and raising awareness of extreme global poverty.

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Brazil: Improving Health at Home and Around the World

I had long known that Brazil shared the foundation’s vision of health equity, and the goal of my visit was to learn more about its capacity for innovation in the hope of identifying areas in which we could potentially collaborate. I’ve been able to travel to Brazil a number of times, and each trip I’ve been impressed by its capacity to innovate around diverse areas – from new technologies to new methods of getting services to the people who need them.

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A Video Series on Nutrition for Practitioners

Undernutrition is an under-appreciated cause of about one-third of all deaths in children around the world before their fifth birthday.

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Improving Nutrition Around the World: Ignoring the Private Sector is Not an Option

Two billion people in the developing world suffer due to poor nutrition. Without exploring innovative responses and engaging all actors in this space, we will surely fail to address this vast problem.

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Tackling Undernutrition: “Everyone’s Problem, But No One’s Responsibility?”

Undernutrition is subject to influences from both the public and private sectors and suffers from a chronic lack of funding, which has resulted in nutrition being “everyone’s problem, but no one’s responsibility.”

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