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Tim Kaine
stated on June 15, 2016 in a senate hearing:

"For every extra year that a girl stays in secondary school, her chance of getting infected with HIV/AIDS decreases by half."

By Jon Greenberg • June 24, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on May 13, 2016 in a press conference:

"The Nordic countries are some of the few countries" that meet development aid goals.

By Jon Greenberg • May 26, 2016

David Miliband
stated on May 17, 2016 in a panel discussion:

"The geography of poverty has changed fundamentally in the last 15 years," with more of it concentrated in fragile and conflict states.

By Jon Greenberg • May 23, 2016

Usain Bolt
stated on May 18, 2016 in an interview on NBC:

Zika mosquitoes "can’t catch me."

By Linda Qiu • May 19, 2016

Jack Lew
stated on May 3, 2016 in an interview with Bloomberg News:

"Almost 100,000 people left Puerto Rico last year."

By Marta Cerava • May 17, 2016

Joe Biden
stated on May 2, 2016 in a post on Medium:

Cervical cancer in Africa is "fully preventable with basic education, screening and vaccines."

By Jon Greenberg • May 5, 2016

Michelle Obama
stated on March 21, 2016 in an interview posted on Medium:

"Research even shows that sending more girls to school can boost an entire country’s GDP."

By Jon Greenberg • April 29, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 24, 2016 in a speech:

Says an array of statistics show that conditions in some parts of Baltimore rival that of "the West Bank in Palestine," "North Korea," and "distressed cities in Nigeria, India, China and South Africa."

By Linda Qiu • April 28, 2016

Ban Ki-moon
stated on April 22, 2016 in comments:

The Paris Agreement "is by far the largest number of countries ever to sign an international agreement on a single day."

By Liepa Zelniene • April 26, 2016

Tim Ziemer
stated on January 20, 2016 in an article posted on Medium:

"In Africa, a child dies every minute because of (malaria)."

By Jon Greenberg • April 25, 2016

Kofi Annan
stated on April 19, 2016 in an op-ed in the Huffington Post:

"Studies have consistently failed to establish the existence of a link between the harshness of a country’s drug laws and its levels of drug use."

By Jon Greenberg • April 22, 2016

Marcus Low
stated on March 19, 2016 in an interview with a South African journalist:

"Most funding for tuberculosis research (is) provided by the U.S. National Institutes for Health."

By Jon Greenberg • April 5, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on March 18, 2016 in a post on Medium:

Congress will begin its recess "without having allocated one penny" to fight Zika.

By Jon Greenberg • March 25, 2016

Gayle Smith
stated on March 9, 2016 in a speech on Capitol Hill:

(Since 1990) "every continent has seen substantial gains, with individual incomes growing by more than a third in every region of the developing world."

By Jon Greenberg • March 24, 2016

Gayle Smith
stated on March 9, 2016 in a speech on Capitol Hill:

"Over the last 30 years, extreme poverty has been cut in half."

By Linda Qiu • March 23, 2016

ActionAid UK
stated on February 2, 2016 in a tweet:

"Malawi has just 300 doctors for 16 million people."

By Jon Greenberg • February 26, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 7, 2016 in a video:

"The richest 80 people in the world own more wealth than the bottom half of the global population."

By Jon Greenberg • February 17, 2016

Bono
stated on January 24, 2016 in an interview with the "Irish Times":

"People think AIDS is done -- it’s not done."

By Jon Greenberg • February 9, 2016

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