Bill and Melinda Gates pledge $10 billion for decade of vaccines
Today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Bill and Melinda Gates announced that they would commit $10 billion over the next 10 years to “help research, develop and deliver vaccines for the world’s poorest countries.”
This is obviously tremendous news and a promising milestone in the fight against infectious diseases. Here’s video of the press conference where the announcement was made. The Gates were joined by Julian Lob-Levyt, CEO of the GAVI Alliance:
worldeconomicforum03 on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free
You can read the Gates Foundation press release wit more details here. And you can read ONE’s official reaction here.
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January 29, 2010 at 2:00 pm
This is owesome!!