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Donors pledge record $7.5B for global vaccines program

US businessman Bill Gates speaks during the Gavi Pledging Conference in Berlin, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. Gavi is the international organization for a global Vaccine Alliance bringing together public and private sectors with the goal of creating access to new vaccines for children living in the world’s poorest countries. (AP Photo/dpa,Bernd von Jutrczenka)
US businessman Bill Gates speaks during the Gavi Pledging Conference in Berlin, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. Gavi is the international organization for a global Vaccine Alliance bringing together public and private sectors with the goal of creating access to new vaccines for children living in the world’s poorest countries. (AP Photo/dpa,Bernd von Jutrczenka) US businessman Bill Gates speaks during the Gavi Pledging Conference in Berlin, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. Gavi is the international organization for a global Vaccine Alliance bringing together public and private sectors with the goal of creating access to new vaccines for children living in the world’s poorest countries. (AP Photo/dpa,Bernd von Jutrczenka)

By Associated Press 1 min read

BERLIN (AP) – 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 billion, Norway gave $969 million and the United States pledged $800 million at a conference Tuesday in Berlin.

Together with prior pledges this provides Gavi with a pot of $9.6 billion – slightly more than it requested – for its work between 2016 and 2020.

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.