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GAVI raises $152 million for vaccinations with private sector partnerships
The GAVI Alliance announced on Friday that it secured $152 million to immunize children against disease using private sector partnerships, a unique funding mechanism leveraging cash and expertise from corporations and foundations.
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Philippines Works to Freeze Spread of Childhood Diseases
On Wednesday the Philippine government’s Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, or RITM, will get new walk-in freezer, which will be used to store vaccines for various viruses, measles included.
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- Asia Pacific
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Preparing for a dengue fever vaccine: why Brazil’s ahead of the game
Six dengue vaccine candidates are in various stages of clinical development but developing countries will not receive the benefits if planning does not start now.
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Achieving Global Health Equality Within a Generation
When looking at the broad sweep of human history, people's health status was relatively similar across the world. Death rates for mothers and children were high, life expectancy was short, and health status was poor. This was the universal condition.Only in the past two centuries have we seen the world diverge.
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- Education, Health Care
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3 Myths That Block Access to the Poor
Every year The Gates Foundation releases an annual letter, this is 2014 where Bill Gates states "By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world."
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- Education, Health Care
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Indian cos among emerging world’s vaccine heroes: Bill Gates
According to Gates, Serum Institute produces a higher volume of vaccines than any other company in the world
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- South Asia
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How vaccines helped India defeat polio while Pakistan become a reservoir for the virus
The diverging fortunes of India and Pakistan in recent years show what an effective vaccination push can do to tackle disease.
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- South Asia
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- governance, vaccines
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No pneumonia vaccines for Kampala
In an effort to protect infants from Pneumonia, the ministry of Health is rolling out administration of the Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV), starting this week.
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- Health Care
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- supply chains, vaccines