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http://www.whale.to/b/bill_gates1.html

"If we do a really great job on vaccines, health care, reproductive
health services, we could lower that [his initial 2050 global
population projection of 9-billion] by perhaps about 10 to 15
percent." ---Bill Gates
With better health care, including vaccines and reproductive health
services, people have fewer children, leading to a lower increase in
human population.

Jeff

he didn't say that, but nice attempt at spin

Where did he say that?

Please show I am wrong.

Gates may have been referring to hCG vaccine or other anti-pregnancy
vaccines.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...og%24=activity

I don't think so. Bill Gate's foundation has paid for a lot of health
care in developing nations as well as vaccine development against
infectious diseases.

"Reproductive health services" means access to birth control. Like
women in developed countries, women in underdeveloped countries would
prefer not to have more children than they can raise to healthy
adulthood. That option is not open to most of them now.

Exactly. And a contraceptive vaccine that is effective for several years
is likely to be more successful (and probably cheaper) than methods
which rely on remembering to take pills on a daily basis.

Where there is better health (in part from vaccines and improved access
to health care), kids are more likely to make it to adulthood, so adults
don't need to have as many kids to ensure that some of their kids will
make it to adulthood.

Reproductive health care means more than birth control. It includes
obstetrics, education and HPV and other STD treatment and prevention.
Plus, it is not just for females.