Rich nations donate $200 mln for child vaccines
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Rich nations pledged $200 million to fight diseases in poor countries on Wednesday, promising to slash the time it takes to get new vaccines to needy children and save more than a million lives a year.
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Vaccines, taxes on tobacco and   condom distribution are among the "best buys" for improving   health in developing countries, the Pan American Health   Organization said on Wednesday.
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The intense demand for flu vaccine, fueled partly by its scarcity, has many wondering how the richest nation in the world could be caught so unprepared.
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Nations need to develop a model vaccine now for global outbreak, world health agency says. LONDON -- With the right coordination, international commitment and $13 million, scientists could deliver within a
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WASHINGTON Twenty (b) billion dollars. That&#39;s the estimated cost in lost productivity due to this year&#39;s flu vaccine shortage.
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KANO, Nigeria  - Political leaders and health  workers launched a drive Saturday to immunize more than 80  million children against polio in 23 African nations and fight  back against a resurgence of the crippling disease.
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International health experts called on Tuesday for rapid worldwide access to promising but expensive cervical cancer vaccines that have the potential to save a quarter of a million lives a year.
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More than 500 million people can  escape abject poverty, 250 million people will no longer go to  bed hungry and 30 million children can be saved if rich  countries double development aid over the next 10 years to $195  billion, a new U.N.-sponsored report said on Monday.
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Vaccine programs in the Americas have made major contributions to improving health in the Americas and new vaccines could go even further, said Dr.
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Rich countries need to honour their promises and deliver cash pledged for tsunami-hit countries, Oxfam says.
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The government has agreed to spend as much as $1.6 billion to buy millions of doses of a smallpox vaccine tailored for people with impaired immunity.
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates's foundation and the government of Norway yesterday gave grants of more than $1 billion to immunize children in poor countries against common diseases -- a blockbuster philanthropic gesture intended to save hundreds of thousands of lives in Africa and Asia.
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The United Nations Children's Fund  (UNICEF) on Wednesday appealed for $576.1 million to help  millions of children in countries in crisis, ranging from Sudan  to Ethiopia and Angola.
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Work has started on building a 200  million-dose stockpile of smallpox vaccines but it could take  up to three years to complete, World Health Organization (WHO)  officials said on Wednesday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation and the government of Norway yesterday pledged more than $1 billion to vaccinate millions of children against diseases that often kill, but are easily preventable.
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The world&#39;s wealthier nations must contribute more money and intellectual power to fighting bird flu or risk a worldwide epidemic that spreads to people, a Vietnam-based official from the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Wednesday.
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Wealthy countries need to do much more to fight global poverty, the international aid agency Oxfam says.