UK pledges Â£2bn to vaccine effort
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Gordon Brown will offer to Â£2bn over 15 years to help boost an international scheme of vaccination programmes.
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The federal government is using money that was intended for vaccinating children to pay for experimental flu vaccines for adults, health officials said.
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The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) has made a pitch for an early rollout of a new vaccine for cervical cancer, saying the formula could save the lives of hundreds of thousands of women in poor countries.
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The Bush administration said Tuesday it intends to buy 1.2 million doses of flu vaccine from a plant in Germany to ease this yearâs shortage.
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Britain's largest medical research charity pledges Â£4bn to investigate the world's killer diseases.
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Federal officials said manufacturer Aventis Pasteur will provide the 2.6 million doses to augment existing supplies in the United States.
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British finance minister Gordon Brown  will propose Wednesday giving $1.8 billion over the next 15  years to a campaign to get life-saving vaccines to millions of  children in poor countries.
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Federal health officials said Tuesday that 2.6 million additional doses of flu vaccine will be available in January, far fewer than the 48 million lost to contamination at a British manufacturing plant.
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Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline PLC has agreed to donate 50 million doses of H5N1 vaccine to the World Health Organization in an attempt to create a pandemic vaccine stockpile for poor countries, company officials announced Wednesday.
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Multimillion-pound programme will vaccinate all girls aged 12 to 13.
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Gordon Brown is to meet Pope Benedict XVI as he launches a scheme to promote vaccines in poor countries.
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Federal health officials said yesterday that 2.6million additional doses of flu vaccine will be available in January, far fewer than the 48 million lost to contamination at an American-owned manufacturing plant in Britain.
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The Canadian government and Bill Gates announced an initiative Tuesday to establish a research institute to develop an AIDS vaccine, committing a total of $119 million to the project. Prime Minister Stephen Harper said his government has pledged $95.3 million to a new fund called the Canadian HIV Vaccine Initiative, while the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has promised up to $24 million.
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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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The UK is now the largest donor to the relief effort after the Government pledged a further Â£35 million, bringing its contribution to Â£50 million.
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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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British researchers are set to begin human trials of a vaccine for type 1 diabetes, BBC News Online reported Monday. Seventy-two diabetic patients are set to participate in the studies beginning next spring