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Newborn and maternal health in Nigeria

nobody@flickr.com (Gates Foundation) — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:27:00 -0700

A mother holds her premature daughter at Turay Yaradua Maternal and Children’s Hospital in Nigeria. She is holding her baby against her chest to provide skin-to-skin contact and encourage breastfeeding. This method, called Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC), was introduced in the hospital by a group of personnel trained by Save the Children. (Katsina, Nigeria, 2009)

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Improving newborn health in Ethiopia

nobody@flickr.com (Gates Foundation) — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 08:00:00 -0700

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A premature baby is cared for in the pediatric ward at Yekatit Hospital in Addis Ababa. One in thirty-two babies in the developing world will die within their first month. The Ethiopian government has launched new programs to train community health workers on clean and safe delivery methods and early postnatal care for mothers and babies. (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2009)

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More to eat, more to sell for small farmers

nobody@flickr.com (Gates Foundation) — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:21:00 -0700

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A maize farmer proudly surveys her crop. Efforts to support small farmers in the developing world are making a real difference. As we experience increasingly high food prices, it’s the poor in the developing world who feel it the most. Our agricultural work at the foundation focuses on improving small farmers’ productivity so they have more to eat, more to sell, and real, tangible improvements in their lives. (Machakos, Kenya, 2009)

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Stronger rice varieties for twenty million farmers

nobody@flickr.com (Gates Foundation) — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 08:39:12 -0700

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A worker ties gunny sacks filled with rice loaded on a tractor-trolley at the Ladwa grain market. The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and its partners are developing heartier new varieties of rice that can withstand drought, flood, cold, and toxic minerals such as salt and iron. By 2017, they are expected to benefit 20 million farmers in Asia and Africa. (Haryana, India, 2009)

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Growing a better life

nobody@flickr.com (Gates Foundation) — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 08:12:00 -0700

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A farmer and mother poses with her children in their family's cassava field. In developing countries, women do up to 80 percent of the work on farms, like the planting, harvesting, and processing. They are responsible for both producing the food and preparing it for their families. (Luwero, Uganda, 2009)

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Cultiver une meilleure vie

Un agriculteur et sa mère posent avec ses enfants dans un champ de manioc qui appartient à leur famille. Dans les pays en développement, les femmes font près de 80% du travail dans les exploitations agricoles, comme par exemple la plantation, la récolte et le traitement. Elles sont responsables pour la production d'aliments ainsi que la préparation pour leur famille. (Luwero, Uganda, 2009)

A Cultivar uma vida melhor

Agricultora e mãe posa com os filhos no campo de mandioca da família deles. Nos países desenvolvidos, as mulheres fazem até 80 porcento do trabalho de campo, como semear, colher e processar. São responsáveis tanto pela produção como a preparação da comida para as suas famílias. (Luwero, Uganda, 2009)

播种更美好的生活

一个农妇和她的孩子们在自家的木薯田里。甘薯容易种植且营养丰富，是发展中国家提高生活质量和改善营养的主要作物。（卢韦罗，乌干达，2009）

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Real lives, real progress, living proof.

nobody@flickr.com (Gates Foundation) — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 09:41:15 -0700

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Nineteen-year-old Maheshwori Devi Bishwokarma poses with her daughter Manisha. Maheshwori struggled through a three day birth with her daughter, relegated to the floor of her cow shed. Nepal has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Each year, more than 6,000 women die during childbirth. The aid of a trained birthing attendant and clean delivery supplies can help women and newborns avoid infection during home births such as these. (Nepal, 2009)

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Quest for the AIDS vaccine

nobody@flickr.com (Gates Foundation) — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:11:42 -0700

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Bill Gates meets with lab technicians of the HIV Pathogenesis Programme. (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 2009)

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Progress in HIV treatment and prevention

nobody@flickr.com (Gates Foundation) — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 19:30:00 -0700

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A local public health advisory promotes the use of condoms to prevent HIV infection. (Andhra Pradesh, India, 2009).

"The war against AIDS is being waged on two fronts—treating those who are already infected and preventing new infections. Treatment continues to be scaled up, with more than 5 million people receiving HIV drugs. This is a great success story. Rich country generosity has been crucial and the execution in poor countries has been strong. However, there will not be enough money to treat everyone who will become infected if we don’t halt the progress of HIV." --Bill Gates

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Saving lives at birth

nobody@flickr.com (Gates Foundation) — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:36:47 -0700

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A mother plays with her young son in the Kenyan village of Mwea. (Kenya, 2009)

Every two minutes, a woman dies in childbirth.Deaths during childbirth are particularly challenging to address because problems that arise in childbirth create emergency situations with a narrow window of a few minutes to a few hours to intervene. Solving this problem requires effective preventive measures or treatments provided rapidly to women and newborns, often at home or in rural clinics. A new landmark initiative, Saving Lives at Birth is setting the stage for groundbreaking prevention and treatment approaches for women and newborns, including family planning and nutritional interventions, in rural, low-resource settings.

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Improving nutrition and livelihoods with strong crops

nobody@flickr.com (Gates Foundation) — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 08:22:38 -0700

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Susan Kitayimbwa, a cassava farmer, cleans some of her crops in preparation for a meal. Easy to grow and packed with nutrients, cassava and sweet potatoes are a vital resource for improving nutrition and livelihoods in developing countries. A four-year grant to Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) is studying the best ways to disseminate more nutritious sweet potato varieties in Uganda and Mozambique. (Luwero District, Uganda, 2009)

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Polio remains in Nigeria

nobody@flickr.com (Gates Foundation) — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:06:28 -0700

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A group of children gather outside for a portrait at the Young Tajudeen Agbangudu Primary School in Nigeria, one of only three remaining countries that have yet to halt the spread of polio. 62 cases of polio were reported in 2011. (Osun State, Nigeria, 2009)

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Farming in West Africa

nobody@flickr.com (Gates Foundation) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:10:56 -0700

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A teenager from West Africa grills corn. (Cote d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast, 2009)

Approximately 1 billion people live in chronic hunger and more than 1 billion live in extreme poverty. Many are small farmers in the developing world. Their success or failure determines whether they have enough to eat, are able to send their children to school, and can earn any money to save.

Health workers reaching those in need

nobody@flickr.com (Gates Foundation) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:13:18 -0800

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Children gather to speak with community health workers and skilled birth attendants in a rural Ethiopian village. (Ethiopia, 2009)

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We must do more for children

nobody@flickr.com (Gates Foundation) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:05:00 -0800

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Young boys pose for a photo at the Gabba market in Uganda.

Global coverage of basic childhood vaccines is around 80 percent, which is good compared to many other health interventions but still leaves one out of five children unprotected. We must do more to ensure all children receive life-saving vaccines. (Kampala, Uganda, 2009)

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Working together to improve African crop yields

nobody@flickr.com (Gates Foundation) — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 09:03:47 -0700

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Calasina Nyapili inspects his finger millet crops for signs of progress. Calasina is a farmer working in collaboration with Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). AGRA works with local farmers to increase access to improved fertilizer and crop seeds that have improved resistance to disease and drought. (Kisumu District, Kenya, 2009)

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Putting women at the center of agriculture

nobody@flickr.com (Gates Foundation) — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 08:12:16 -0700

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A woman returns from collecting leaves near the village of Dikha. In developing countries, women do up to 80 percent of the work on farms, like the planting, harvesting, and processing. They are responsible for both producing the food and preparing it for their families. Yet women farmers receive only 5 percent of extension services and are underrepresented in training programs. There are also few women in agricultural research and policy-making positions. We’re providing research fellowships to 360 African women scientists to ensure that the next generation of agricultural researchers includes women. (Doti District, Nepal, 2009)

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Basic sanitation services for rural populations

nobody@flickr.com (Gates Foundation) — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 08:22:52 -0700

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Ms. Joyce Mrope demonstrates a new hand washing station outside her home during a recent foundation learning trip to a rural sanitation site. Safe, sustainable approaches to sanitation like these can help save the lives of children who die from diarrhea and create a world where the poor lead healthier, more productive and more dignified lives.(Masasi District, Tanzania, 2009)

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Saving lives with clean water and sanitation

nobody@flickr.com (Gates Foundation) — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 08:02:01 -0700

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2.5 billion people lack access to safe sanitation and clean water. Safe, sustainable approaches to sanitation can help save the lives of children who die from diarrhea and create a world where the poor lead healthier lives. USAID supports the treatment of 6.6 billion liters of water throughout Africa, using point-of-use water purification products. (Changwe, Zambia, 2009)

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The crowded slum of Korogocho

nobody@flickr.com (Gates Foundation) — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:05:32 -0800

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A girl plays with a bicycle tire in the slum of Korogocho, one of the largest slum neighborhoods of Nairobi, Kenya. Home to 150,000 to 200,000 people pressed into a 1.5 square kilometers. (Nairobi, Kenya, 2009)

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Creating nutrient-rich crops

nobody@flickr.com (Gates Foundation) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:55:50 -0800

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A group of small farmers work in an orange-fleshed sweet potato field in Tanzania. Long a staple of the local diet and a primary reserve crop during famines, traditional white sweet potatoes unfortunately lack much in the way of nutrients. But improved orange-fleshed varieties are packed with vitamins, especially vitamin A. The new varieties also mature more quickly and produce far more potatoes than the old white varieties. Access to new farming techniques combined with the wider availability of the nutrient-rich sweet potatoes, have driven down Tanzania's malnutrition rate of children under age 5. (Mwasonge, Tanzania, 2009)

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