01 Dec Gates Global Vaccine Campaign to Raise $3.7 Billion for Immunization
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The Global Alliance for Vaccine Immunization, co-founded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will create an advocacy group to raise $3.7 billion amid reduced donor contributions following the global financial crisis.
The group is expected to start operating in the first quarter of 2011 and will include human-rights activists who will lobby government leaders for money, Mary Robinson, the former Irish President and outgoing chairwoman of the alliance, said in an interview in Kigali, Rwanda, yesterday. The funding is needed to introduce new vaccines and roll out existing ones, she said.