Day: April 23, 2014
- Africa
President Mulatu vows to support immunization
Mahlet Fasil President Dr. Mulatu Teshome of Ethiopia vowed to take a leading role in support of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) mission aimed at increasing access to immunization and saving children’s lives as he lunched the start of the latest immunization campaign in Ethiopia. “By investing in immunization we are protecting the futuresof our children across…
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Closing Africa’s agricultural gender gap
Melinda Gates SEATTLE – Africa’s GDP is now growing faster than any other continent’s. When many people think about the engines driving that growth, they imagine commodities like oil, gold, and cocoa, or maybe industries like banking and telecommunications. I think of a woman named Joyce Sandir. Joyce is a farmer who grows bananas, vegetables, and maize on a small…
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