{"id":1926,"date":"2015-01-28T17:59:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T17:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/bill-gates-other-donors-pledge-record-amount-to-vaccinate-poor-children\/"},"modified":"2015-01-28T17:59:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T17:59:04","slug":"bill-gates-other-donors-pledge-record-amount-to-vaccinate-poor-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/bill-gates-other-donors-pledge-record-amount-to-vaccinate-poor-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates, Other Donors Pledge Record Amount To Vaccinate Poor Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <!-- Entry Text --><\/p>\n<p>BERLIN (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Governments and private donors, among them the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, have pledged a record $7.5 billion to replenish a global vaccination program for the poor.<\/p>\n<p>The Gates Foundation gave $1.55 billion to the public-private Gavi alliance that has immunized hundreds of millions of children worldwide since 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Britain pledged $1.57 billion, Norway gave $969 million and the United States pledged $800 million at a conference Tuesday in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>Together with prior pledges this provides Gavi with a pot of $9.6 billion \u00e2\u20ac\u201c slightly more than it requested \u00e2\u20ac\u201c for its work between 2016 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The Geneva-based organization said that the money would help immunize an additional 300 million children against preventable diseases, providing one of the most cost-effective ways to prevent millions of premature deaths.<\/p>\n<p> Like Us On Facebook  <br class=\"ethanmobile\" \/> Follow Us On Twitter <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Governments and private donors, among them the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, have pledged a record $7.5 billion to replenish a global vaccination program for the poor. The Gates Foundation gave $1.55 billion to the public-private Gavi alliance that has immunized hundreds of millions of children worldwide since 2000. Britain pledged $1.57 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}