Gates pledges $10 billion for vaccines

[Calypso 464]

Aside from the article below, I have two questions: How true is it that some vaccines cause autism to children? Have you risked or will you risk that by completing your own babies' or children's vaccination requirements set by your pediatrician or family physician?

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will donate $10 billion over the next decade to research new vaccines and bring them to the world's poorest countries, the Microsoft co-founder and his wife said Friday. Calling upon governments and business to also contribute, they said the money will produce higher immunization rates and aims to make sure 90% of children are immunized against dangerous diseases such as diarrhea and pneumonia in poorer nations.

"We must make this the decade of vaccines," Bill Gates said in a statement. "Vaccines already save and improve millions of lives in developing countries. Innovation will make it possible to save more children than ever before."

Gates said the commitment more than doubles the $4.5 billion the foundation has given to vaccine research over the years.

The foundation said up to 7.6 million children under 5 could be saved through 2019 as a result of the donation. It also estimates that an additional 1.1 million kids would be saved if a malaria vaccine can be introduced by 2014. A tuberculosis vaccine would prevent even more deaths.

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[spookyturtle 9,466]

Good man. He's trying to atone for all those crappy versions of Windows.

[Ban Hammer 13,400]

Good man. He's trying to atone for all those crappy versions of Windows.

this just covers him up to ME. he's got more to atone for with vista.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

this just covers him up to ME. he's got more to atone for with vista.

At least Windows 7 is good, otherwise he's be on his way to hell.

[scandal 951]

This is a really good news event.

Vaccines are a true example of a market failure.

Drug companies operate on a profit principle and will only invest in research for drugs they believe they can sell profitably.

Hence, Viagra got billions of dollars of funding for R&D (not to mention marketing) since there's a captive audience of well-off Western men ready to pay for their hard ons.

Malaria research gets a tiny fraction of that attention and funding, simply because even if you come up with a wonder cure, who's going to buy it?

I'm all for the private markets and the innovation they can bring. But when they fail to address an obvious need it's reassuring to know that there are those willing to step in and address the market failure.

Accolades to the Gates Foundation.

[luckytxn 2,264]

Great, now we will have more kids living only to suffer poverty and starvation.

[scandal 951]

Great, now we will have more kids living only to suffer poverty and starvation.

Yeah. We should be investing in gas chambers for Ethiopia to put them out of our misery. #######.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Yeah. We should be investing in gas chambers for Ethiopia to put them out of our misery. #######.

He sounds like BY.

[scandal 951]

He sounds like BY.

He's just a cheap imitation. He's not really Australian, after all.

[Ali G. 37]

I love it when you two get all jealous on me.

[Niels Bohr 72]

How many of us can donate that much? I do appreciate him donating 10 billion dollars.