At the WEF in Davos on January 29, 2010 Bill and Melinda Gates pledged their foundation would commit $10 billion over the next 10 years to help research, develop and deliver vaccines for the world’s poorest countries. And so the Decade of Vaccines (DOV) was "born". [5, 6] "Increased vaccination could save more than 8 million children by 2020; significant funding gaps remain, others must join the effort."...“We must make this the decade of vaccines,” said Bill Gates. "The foundation used a model developed by a consortium led by the Institute of International Programs at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to project the potential impact of vaccines on childhood deaths over the next 10 years. ...By significantly scaling up the delivery of life-saving vaccines in developing countries to 90 percent coverage—including new vaccines to prevent severe diarrhea and pneumonia—the model suggests that we could prevent the deaths of some 7.6 million children under 5 from 2010-2019...The new funding announced today is in addition to the $4.5 billion that the Gates Foundation has already committed to vaccine research, development and delivery to date across its entire disease portfolio since its inception." [3, 4] “The Gates Foundation’s commitment to..
> READ MORE