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  1. The world is facing another serious crisis: food insecurity. explains how the world can avoid a spike in global hunger:

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  2. Want to know if your country is likely to achieve gender equality in your lifetime? 🔎 made a calculator to find out.

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  3. Which gender equality issue do you want to learn more about in 2022?

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  4. 10 years ago, not even 25% of rural women in Bangladesh felt empowered. By 2015, this had risen to more than 41% with continued gains in recent years. What caused this change? explains.

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  5. Jashodaben Pravinchandra is like many parents across the world. She works hard, cares for her children, and for many years struggled to make ends meet without adequate child care. Child care is poverty reduction:

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  6. Achieving gender equality means putting women at the center of communities, decisions, policies, and economies. Learn more about what we're doing in pursuit of this goal ⤵️

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  7. Here are some fast facts for on where the world stands on the road to gender equality: 🌎 ZERO countries are on track to achieve gender equality by 2030 🌍 1 in 3 countries aren't making any progress 🌏 Progress IS possible by centering equality in policies and programs

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    To mark , I joined and Nobel Prize-winning economist Esther Duflo on 's HERO podcast to discuss why women's economic empowerment is essential to the COVID-19 recovery. Listen here 🔈:

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  9. Affordable child care is an essential element for gender equality.

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  10. Over the past two years the world has made incredible strides in scientific innovation, and learned important lessons to help prevent future pandemics. Now is the moment to build on that progress.

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    Mar 7

    Our Global Pandemic Preparedness Summit, hosted by CEPI and the UK Government, explores how the world can develop vaccines against new pathogens with pandemic potential in 100 days🌍 More on our by ✏️⏬|

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  12. Entering year 2 of the pandemic, most regions are still in the throes of outbreaks, and global vaccination rates are disproportionate. How did this happen and why? What has to be done to solve this for the future? Join our live discussion Mar 2 @ 11a ET.

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  13. Everyone deserves access to safe, effective vaccines and medicines. The African Medicines Agency and other organizations advancing public health in Africa are working to make sure more people can access life-saving health innovations at lower costs.

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  14. Fun fact: Full-time foundation employees can recommend a charitable gift to an organization of their choice in celebration of milestone anniversaries. 🎉 Our CEO is celebrating his 15 years at the foundation by helping provide scholarships for young African leaders.

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  15. Important discussion at Munich Security Conference about the global fight against the pandemic and what we can do to avoid something like COVID-19 happening again.

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  16. This progress is because of dedicated health workers, partners, and government. We, along with the other GPEI partners, are committed to supporting the Government of Pakistan to ensure no child in the country is paralyzed by polio ever again.

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  17. In Pakistan, for the first time ever, there hasn’t been a single child paralyzed by wild poliovirus in more than a year or any virus detected in the environment in more than two months.

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  18. Since 2008, the number of countries where wild poliovirus is endemic has fallen to just two. Now, because of the commitment we’re seeing in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the polio map continues to inch closer to zero countries.

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    The will help accelerate access to life-saving health innovations where they're needed most. We’re proud to partner with , , , & others in this African-led effort.

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  20. After contracting malaria three times in her childhood, one healthcare worker in Kenya is helping to ensure no child faces the same fate.

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