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Gates Foundation, Norway contribute $1 billion to increase child immunization
February 20th, 2005
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a grant of $750 million, and Norway committed $290 million, to support the work of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI). In making the announcement, Bill Gates called on other donors to address the major funding gap for children's immunization programs in developing countries. GAVI was launched in 2000 to address the fact that more than 2 million people in developing countries die needlessly each year because they do not receive the immunizations that are taken for granted in the industrialized world. Since its inception, GAVI has helped prevent more than 670,000...
Source: Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA (2005-02-20)
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