Child Vaccine Efforts Get Big Boost
15 June 2011
A child in Sierra Leone receives a vaccination through a program supported by the GAVI Alliance.
This is the VOA Special English Health Report.
International donors have promised more than four billion dollars to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization. That group, known as the GAVI Alliance, held a pledging conference Monday in London.
GAVI raised six hundred million dollars more than its target goal. Britain led the donations with 1.3 billion dollars in new pledges through twenty-fifteen. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation also promised one billion more over the next five years.
Norway promised more than six hundred seventy million dollars. The United States made four hundred fifty million dollars in new pledges.
GAVI says a record fifty countries requested money for vaccines during its latest application period.
Last week, the group announced an agreement by vaccine makers to cut prices for developing countries. These lower prices, combined with the money raised this week, could protect an extra two hundred fifty million children.
Jeffrey Rowland is a GAVI spokesman.
JEFFREY ROWLAND: "GAVI’s goal over the next five years, by twenty-fifteen, is to immunize millions more children and save an additional four million children’s lives, purely by providing basic vaccines against diseases that are basically almost non-existent in rich countries, as well as providing new vaccines against pneumonia, diarrheal diseases and then hopefully HPV and some other vaccine-preventable diseases.”
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