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Gates Foundation Seeks to Make This "The Decade of Vaccines"

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Donald Zuhn -- Last month, Bill and Melinda Gates kicked off the new decade by announcing that their Foundation will be pledging $10 billion over the next ten years to help research, develop, and deliver vaccines to the world's poorest countries. The announcement came at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in January. Noting that "[v]accines already save and improve millions of lives in developing countries," Mr. Gates (at right) declared that "[w]e must make this the decade of vaccines." He also noted that "[i]nnovation will make it possible to save more children than ever before." In addition, Mr....

Full post as published by Patent Docs on February 17, 2010 (boomark / email).