Co-Chairman, Gates Foundation
The Moment of Lift with Melinda Gates
In an exclusive sit-down interview, Melinda Gates discusses her newly-released book "The Moment of Lift." Among other things, she elaborates on the work of the Gates foundation, her advocacy for access to contraceptive and family planning for women in developing countries including in sub-Saharan Africa, the importance of vaccination as well as the ongoing measles outbreak. Africa 54 Health Correspondent Linord Moudou has more.
About Melinda Gates
Melinda French Gates announced a $215 million increase in her women’s health funding, bringing her total commitment to $600 million, with a focus on reproductive health, menopause, and mental health. She stated that women’s health has been “ignored and underfunded for far too long” and expressed concern about the rollback of reproductive rights in the United States, saying she never thought the country would “roll back a law that was on the books for US women.” She also said she has not directly spoken with HHS Secretary RFK Jr. about vaccine misinformation, but that the foundation has “engaged in that discussion and it has not gone well.” French Gates became a minority owner of One Roof Sports & Entertainment, the parent organization of the Seattle Kraken, and discussed the role of sports in community building and youth development. She said she has voted for candidates from both major parties and described herself as a centrist. She also spoke about her philanthropic approach, stating that 70% of Pivotal Ventures’ funding is focused on women’s power in the United States, and argued that “having the richest country in the world...but not having women all the way to the places they ought to be able to go in society does not make any sense.”
Transcript (4 segments)
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Interviewer0:00
Melinda Gates is co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and is stable in total. How do you go from a mission to help people have highly productive lives? In an interview with Melinda Gates, and how do you see this renewed book, 'The Moment of Lift'? The moment of lift shines the word. The manga fantasy labor of John had a less effort over the here's to empower women and girls, and the word and the importance of family planning, and so highlights the work of the Gates Foundation. Melinda Gates, do you sometimes think of the voice of Mark? You just read Easterbrook's 'The Moment of Lift'. So why do you think of this title, 'The Moment of Lift'? What is the moment of lift?
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Melinda Gates0:48
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Interviewer2:25
The work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has impact in the war and particularly you have word on the consumer of Africa. You know more than 15 billion dollars bill in west in projects relating to Africa. The budget builds the impact that you were able to see there has really transformed the people's lives. Yes, so the foundation has been since November 2015. The most important thing the graffiti shows is we work in partnership with nothing the foundation has ever done. What I'll be in for a partnership with others and particularly with government and citizens on the ground in various countries. And fly a typical just Olympic the skylar quite right things. We experiment, you know what I can do with you? All the experiment brief we a trial games and measured. And I next to government escape. Yes, and so I think where the foundation's baby is success is in index nations. We have valid garden, KNH and throw 10192 norm is reasons. Packed nations and malaria bed nets and mother product. She large-scale partnerships that more than then to play often seen in many countries in Africa and all over the world. And you mix that malaria bed nets global. Of this could be the two women who cybermen have Peter kids under the with something in the live like picking of action nations. Vaccines help the word insert and D66 notebooks. The game is here resurgence of missiles and one of the reasons is microphones parents in the you to the interview fax number children. How does it make you feel that there is a crisis and misled Cindy to the always timing for the brief extrader? And him in the evening think that global health issues the which will not to this always has come back because there should be read with information and go no child in this country, no person who house and in him is in a meme. Kapper my situation in the night. CB effects Baisemeaux nel speakers on her it shows and labels Michels way see they are light shaping tools with my Jamie Oliver Africa. What and miles a label work since I is the CS dirt showdown slide. So arm together the sinus in right always a hope in knick's people realize how lucky we are the have access in their entry.
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Melinda Gates5:00
So to go back to family planning, live it so input and what is the message behind family planning? Family planning is the greatest and a dry rub not to who hate in the world. When a woman in time and space the crash over her family is half hour for entire family. The kids are better educated and the family is 12 hour. How do you empower women? Change the word. What is the theory of the book? You want to pair with a power everybody as Arnhem and Sophie Morel the society's how you lift up all women and the goal is not just the goal. They believe in a race with more connection and that the people job the back in those kids. You think you are out for your time and breed to go now. And in her book 'The Moment of Lift', Melinda Gates also shares some of your personal stories, including the up she wants experience in a blast. She is and a new way on the whole time mulisch and chips. Or being accused and she help of experience can be an arrangement.