21 Nov 20 Health Ministers Appeal to Donors to Support Child Immunization Programs to Save Millions of Lives and Prevent Pneumonia and Diarrhoea
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by GAVI Alliance
Maxims News Network- November 16, 2009
“More than 20 health ministers from developing countries meeting for the 4th GAVI Alliance Partner’s Forum to highlight the progress and challenges in protecting children’s lives through immunization programmes (including rotavirus and pneumococcal diseases) have appealed to donors to maintain their commitment to immunization programmes ahead of meetings in Hanoi, Vietnam (18-20 November) that bring together the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry, NGOs, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists….”