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GAVI To Purchase $1 Billion In Childhood Vaccines For Distribution In 37 Of The Poorest Nations
The Geneva-based GAVI Alliance, a fund backed by governments, the World Bank, the WHO and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said in an e-mailed statement on Tuesday that it will purchase more than $1 billion in vaccines against rotavirus, pneumococcal and other diseases through deals made with GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer Inc. and Merck & Co. to immunize children in 37 of the poorest nations, Bloomberg reports. "Wealthy nations donated $4.3 billion to purchase the vaccines as part of a plan to immunize 250 million children by 2015," the news service notes (Bennett, 9/27).
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