26 Jan GAVI welcomes new global commitment to vaccines
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WAM Geneva, Jan 26th, 2011 (WAM) — A new partnership marking broader global collaboration around vaccines injects needed funding into the GAVI Alliance‘s efforts to help save millions of children and hopefully inspires other philanthropists to invest in childhood immunisation programmes.
Announced in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday, His Highness General Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation entered into a partnership in which each committed US$ 50 million for immunisation programmes in Afghanistan and Pakistan.