A Shot In The Arm

Thu., Dec. 3, 1998

Billionaire computer mogul Bill Gates announced Wednesday that he and his wife, Melinda, are giving $100 million to immunization programs for children in developing countries. “Our program has a simple goal to make vaccines you and I take for granted available to children regardless of where they live,” the Microsoft Corp. chairman said at a news conference in New York City. However, the money will not be used to actually buy vaccines but will be used, instead, to test them globally to make sure they work against local strains, to educate health officials worldwide about their need and to lobby agencies to commit to paying for the shots on a long-term basis. The Gates money will be used to set up programs to immunize children with relatively new vaccines for hepatitis B, homophilus influenza B, streptococcus pneumonia and rotavirus.

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