Melinda Gates, co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, explains how to solve problems with no apparent solution.
During the conversation, Gates said solving problems like poverty and inequality takes some serious strategizing. You can't just be a billionaire pushing your money and agenda on people because the right solutions aren't always intuitive.Gates: To surround yourself with experts and then go out in the field and do site visits and really hear from people on the ground what they want and how interventions will or won't change their lives.
One example Gates gave was helping combat HIV in an impoverished area. She went in thinking the solution was to give sex workers more condoms. Then she learned that if sex workers tried to force condoms on customers, they would often get physically assaulted by the men for making such a suggestion. In another instance, Gates recalled a trip to Malawi where she saw women walking ten to fifteen miles in searing heat to get their children vaccinated. Gates asked a mother whether she was getting shots for her children, and she responded that she was actually there to get a birth control injection.After speaking to women in the area, Gates realized mothers felt more frustrated by lack of access to birth control than to vaccination medicine.
Today, the charity aims to bring high-quality contraceptive services to 120 million women and girls in the poorest countries by 2020.
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