Melinda Gates Quotes About Planning

Quotes about: Planning

• In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.

  Melinda Gates

  Running, Vaccines, Long

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

• Childbearing, I mean, if there's no place to go to deliver your baby, then you're the one that's delivering in those unhealthy circumstances. Or if you can't get access to family planning, your chances of surviving and being able to bring your kids up if they come one right after the other, that locks you into a cycle of poverty.

  Melinda Gates

  Baby, Mean, Kids

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

• I've travelled extensively in the last 16 years - to slums in Bangladesh, to townships in South Africa, to all kinds of places in India, etc. When I would go and talk to villagers about something like vaccines, if I stayed long enough, the women would bring the conversation around and say: "What about this family planning tool? We can't keep having the number of children we're having."

  Melinda Gates

  Children, Years, Vaccines

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child's health.

  Melinda Gates

  Children, Vaccines, Space

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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