You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work.
Melinda GatesNow we just really need to do the work, which we're doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
Melinda GatesI went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.
Melinda GatesWhen I look at 225 million women who want contraceptives, and then I look at the 52 million unintended pregnancies that could be avoided by addressing this unmet need, where can we have the biggest impact with our voice, our dollars, our partners? It's on contraceptives. I would rather address the problem upstream.
Melinda Gates