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Fund to roll out over 1 billion dollars in vaccines for poor
Sep 27, 2011, 10:46 GMT
Johannesburg - The Gavi Alliance, a public-private foundation based in Geneva, said Tuesday it planned to distribute vaccines worth more than 1 billion dollars to some of the world's poorest countries.
Key in the plan are rotavirus vaccines, which will be given to 16 countries to help prevent children deaths from severe diarrhoea. A further 18 countries are to receive pneumococcal vaccines to protect against pneumonia.
The two diseases are believed to be responsible for the death of half a million children each year, mostly in Africa and Asia.
'We are taking the best tools that exist in the world and are getting them to children wherever they live,' Seth Berkley, the head of Gavi, said in a phone conference.
The vaccines are to be purchased from leading pharmaceutical companies.
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