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Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.
Seth Berkley / Medical Doctor
Leadership
Power
Responsibility
Vision
About
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With infectious disease, without vaccines, there's no safety in numbers.
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Disease
Numbers
Safety
Vaccines
Without
Infectious
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We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell.
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Polio
Type
World
Eliminated
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The best vaccine imaginable is only valuable to the extent we get it to everyone who needs it.
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Healthcare
Needs
Vaccines
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Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power. And I try to model that in all of my interactions.
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Interactions
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No country in the post-colonial era has thrived without first building its capacity to conduct scientific research.
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Capacity
Research
Scientific Research
Thrive
No Country
Scientific
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I love science, and I believe in it. I have a faith that science can solve problems and make the world a better place.
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Faith
Science
Better Place
Problems
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In an increasingly complex world, we have a simple and bold vision that all children should have the opportunity to grow up healthy.
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Bold
Increasingly
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Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other development intervention.
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Children
Development
Higher
Intervention
Rate
Return
Yield
Nearly
Educating
Investments
Par
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You can't stop wars to build tertiary teaching hospitals, but you can say, 'Let's stop for a couple of days to immunise the kids.' It has been done.
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Hospitals
Wars
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History will not judge HIV/AIDS kindly... the harshest words will be reserved for how the world responded, or rather failed to respond, to the epidemic.
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Reserved
History World Will
Respond
Failed
Epidemic
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As many times as [HIV] changes its clothes, it's still wearing the same socks, and now our job is to make sure we get the body to really hate those socks.
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Jobs
Clothes
Hate
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As variable as flu is, HIV makes flu look like the Rock of Gibraltar. The virus that causes AIDS is the trickiest pathogen scientists have ever confronted.
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Hiv
Rocks
Viruses
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When it comes to providing aid, developing innovations and making bold steps that change the course of history, the United States is usually on the front lines.
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Innovation
Lines
United States
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When it comes to providing aid, developing innovations, and making bold steps that change the course of history, the United States is usually on the front lines.
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Developing
Lines
Providing
Steps
Aid
Bold
Front
Front Lines
Innovations
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The pathway to a more sustainable future for all children must include access to the basic building blocks of good health, including nutrition, water, and immunizations.
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Building Blocks
Good Health
Nutrition
Blocks
Sustainable
Include
Pathway
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If you want to know the value of vaccines, just spend some time in a clinic in Africa. The faces of the mothers and fathers say it all: vaccines prevent illness and save lives.
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Clinic
Faces
Illness
Vaccines
Want
Just
Africa
Say
Fathers
Spend
Mothers
Prevent
Some
Save
Value
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The GAVI Alliance has achieved many things in its first dozen years, but none more important than helping save more than 5.5 million lives and prevent untold illness and suffering.
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Dozen
Illness
Achieved
Alliance
Prevent
Untold
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As megacities like Mexico City and Lagos become increasingly common, we could see a rise of the urban epidemic and a new era of infectious disease threatening global health security.
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Mexico
Mexico City
New Era
Threatening
Urban
Rise
Epidemic
Increasingly
Infectious
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Children who are healthy - and have adequate nutrition - are much more likely to attend school. People who finish school and do well have higher earning potential in their adult lives.
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Adequate
Earning
Nutrition
Attend
Finish
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Without strong health systems in place, the higher the population density, the more difficult it becomes to prevent and control outbreaks, and not just because of the increased risk of contagion.
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Contagion
Density
Population
Increased
Prevent
Systems
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New vaccines are being developed all the time, which could save many more lives and dramatically improve people's health. And this goes beyond the traditional burden of childhood infectious diseases.
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Burden
Childhood
Traditional
Vaccines
Beyond
Developed
Diseases
Dramatically
Improve
Infectious
Save
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The return on investment in global health is tremendous, and the biggest bang for the buck comes from vaccines. Vaccines are among the most successful and cost-effective health investments in history.
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Health
Bucks
Investment
Return
Successful
Vaccines
Most
Among
Bang
Biggest
Buck
Tremendous
Cost-Effective
Global
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Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our prowess in providing better tools to address diseases of poverty is one of the best forms of foreign aid.
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Foreign Aid
Poverty
Providing
Tools
Best Science Better
Address
Advantages
Aid
Comparative
Diseases
Focusing
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In large part, thanks to widespread immunization, the number of young children dying each year has declined significantly, from approximately 14 million in 1979 to slightly less than eight million in 2010.
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Dying
Thanks
Young Children
Approximately
Declined
Each Year
Widespread
Large Part
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Historically, industrial revolutions haven't been kind to poor people. Despite the potential benefits technology can offer, the immediate impact on the lowest-paid members of society has often been negative.
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Society
Benefits
Despite
Impact
Members
Negative
Poor
Poor People
Revolutions
Historically
Immediate
Industrial
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More people living in less space can put greater strain on already limited sanitation resources, and this can create a fertile breeding ground for waterborne infectious disease and the insects spreading them.
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Breeding
Fertile
Insects
Sanitation
Strain
Infectious
More People
Spreading
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By recognizing that infectious disease is not some faraway exotic issue but a global problem, and by sharing the responsibility for its prevention, diagnosis, and control, the whole world will be a lot safer.
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Diagnosis
Exotic
Prevention
Recognizing
Faraway
Infectious
Safer
Sharing
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Yellow fever outbreaks are not uncommon. But, as with other infectious diseases, when they occur in urban areas, they can play out very differently - not least in terms of the speed and scale at which they can spread.
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Fever
Speed
Spread
Uncommon
Urban
Urban Areas
Yellow
Scale
Area
Diseases
Infectious
Least
Occur
Terms
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You'd see little shallow graves, lined up, one after the other - babies. That's what happens when measles goes through a nutritionally deficient community. It's a horrible disease, and it spreads incredibly efficiently.
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Community
Disease
Graves
Happens
Horrible
Measles
Shallow
Babies
Deficient
Efficiently
Incredibly
Lined
Spreads
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Healthy children are more likely to attend school and are better able to learn. Healthy workers are more productive. More productive economies mean greater stability in developing countries and improved security in the West.
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Children
Country
Developing
Developing Countries
Mean
Stability
Workers
Better Children More
Attend
Economies
Improved
Likely
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As cities get bigger, our best defence will be to prevent outbreaks in the first place by building better public health systems, improving childhood immunisation through better routine immunisation and pre-emptive vaccination campaigns.
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Bigger
Campaigns
Childhood
Cities
Defence
Improving
Public Health
Routine
Best Health Better
First Place
Pre-Emptive
Prevent
Systems
Vaccination
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Land degradation, rising sea levels, famine, and conflict will continue to drive people from their homes and towards cities, with megacities like Mexico City and Lagos becoming increasingly common in some of the poorest parts of the world.
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Becoming
Cities
Conflict
Degradation
Famine
Levels
Mexico
Mexico City
Poorest
Rising
Sea
World City People
Drive
Towards
Homes
Increasingly
Parts
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As more and more people adopt an urban lifestyle and cities continue to swell, not only does the risk of urban epidemics increase - something we haven't seen much of for decades - but the need for larger emergency stockpiles can increase, too.
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Cities
Decades
Lifestyle
Urban
Adopt
Emergency
Epidemic
More And More
Swell
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The virus that causes AIDS is the trickiest pathogen scientists have ever confronted. It mutates furiously, it has decoys to evade the immune system, it attacks the very cells that are trying to fight it, and it quickly hides itself in your genome.
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Aids
Causes
Genome
Immune
Attacks
Itself
Confronted
Fight
Hides
Quickly
Scientists
System
Virus
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The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting is the perfect place for a dialogue that brings together industry, civil society, U.N. agencies, and countries around a shared response to the challenge of protecting children against vaccine-preventable illness.
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Society
Civil Society
Dialogue
Economic
Illness
Industry
Perfect
Response
Together
Against
Agencies
Annual
Brings
Challenge
Civil
Countries
Forum
Meeting
Protecting
Shared
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GAVI works collaboratively with the private sector - from investment banks to vaccine suppliers to corporations to members of the Forbes 400 - to find new and better ways to raise and apply resources and broaden the base of participants in global health.
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Better Ways
Corporations
Forbes
Investment
Participants
Private Sector
Suppliers
Banks
Broaden
Sector
Vaccine
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Now, you might think of flu as just a really bad cold, but it can be a death sentence. Every year, 36,000 people in the United States die of seasonal flu. In the developing world, the data is much sketchier, but the death toll is almost certainly higher.
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Cold
Data
Developing
Flu
Developing World
Sentence
Toll
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Vaccines are extremely cost-effective, giving kids a healthy start in life and supporting the economic and educational foundations of entire communities. They directly lead to a healthy workforce, which is so critical to long-term development and prosperity in all countries.
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Critical
Development
Educational
Healthy
Long Term
Prosperity
Vaccines
Workforce
Communities
Cost-Effective
Directly
Extremely
Foundations
Supporting
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As demonstrated by the emergence of the Mexican swine flu in the U.S., infectious diseases have little respect for borders; helping developing countries detect and deal with their diseases is the surest way for us to protect ourselves from new and potentially devastating epidemics.
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Borders
Developing Countries
Emergence
Flu
Mexican
Swine
Detect
Diseases
Epidemic
Infectious
Potentially
Surest
Surest Way
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We know that children who are healthier do not require medical treatment or care, both of which cost time and money. So, by avoiding illness, infants have a greater chance of growing into healthier children who are able to attend school and become more productive members of society.
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Medical
Avoiding
Cost
Greater
Illness
Medical Treatment
Members
Time And Money
Treatment
Attend
Healthier
Infants
Require
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When AIDS first appeared, people didn't know what it was. You'll remember that it affected mostly young gay men - it was actually called GRID for a short period of time: Gay-Related Immunodeficiency Syndrome - and people thought it actually might be recreational drugs or other types of toxins.
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Aids
Appeared
Grid
Recreational
Short Period
Types
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Finding innovative ways to deliver vaccines to children in developing countries is at the heart of our work. The very fact that we don't have people on the ground but rather work in an alliance with other organizations is itself an innovation that was the basis of GAVI's establishment in 2000.
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Developing
Developing Countries
Establishment
Innovation
Vaccines
Alliance
Deliver
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I wish we could have state-of-the-art hospitals in every corner of the earth... but realistically, it's going to be a while before that can happen. But we can immunise every kid on earth, and we can prevent these diseases. It's only a matter of political will, a little bit of money and some systems to do it.
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Hospitals
Corner
Diseases
Prevent
Realistically
Systems
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In global health, emergency vaccine stockpiles are like the insurance policy you never really wanted to take out: you resent the cost and have mixed feelings about never making a claim. Moreover, given that a stockpile is often a last resort, if you ever fall back on it, you have, in some way, already failed.
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Health
Cost
Fall
Given
Mixed Feelings
Policy
Resent
Claim
Emergency
Failed
Insurance
Mixed
Moreover
Resort
Vaccine
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Now, when you get a viral infection, what normally happens is it takes days or weeks for your body to fight back at full strength, and that might be too late. When you're pre-immunized, what happens is you have forces in your body pre-trained to recognize and defeat specific foes. So that's really how vaccines work.
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Body
Defeat
Happens
Infection
Late
Might
Too Late
Vaccines
Viral
Your Body
Now
Back
Days
Weeks
Too
Full
Fight
Foes
Forces
Normally
Recognize
Specific
Takes
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For just a few dollars a dose, vaccines save lives and help reduce poverty. Unlike medical treatment, they provide a lifetime of protection from deadly and debilitating disease. They are safe and effective. They cut healthcare and treatment costs, reduce the number of hospital visits and ensure healthier children, families and communities.
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Children
Cutting
Vaccines
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For just a few dollars a dose, vaccines save lives and help reduce poverty. Unlike medical treatment, they provide a lifetime of protection from deadly and debilitating disease. They are safe and effective. They cut healthcare and treatment costs, reduce the number of hospital visits, and ensure healthier children, families and communities.
Seth Berkley / Medical Doctor
Medical
Disease
Dollars
Dose
Healthcare
Lifetime
Medical Treatment
Poverty
Protection
Safe
Treatment
Vaccines
Communities
Costs
Cut
Deadly
Effective
Ensure
Families
Number
Few
Unlike
Hospital
Provide
Reduce
Save
Visits
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Measles is probably the best argument for why there needs to be global health, and why we have to think about it as a global public good. Because in a sense, measles is the canary in the coal mine for immunization. It is, you know, highly transmissible. The vaccine costs 15 cents, so it's not - you know, shouldn't be an issue in terms of cost.
Seth Berkley / Medical Doctor
Cents
Coal
Cost
Measles
Public Good
Best Health Good
Canary
Vaccine
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