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BMGF:
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL AND GATES FOUNDATION TOGETHER
COMMIT $200 MILLION TO ERADICATE POLIO: 02/12/2007
(MaximsNews Network)
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UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network /
- 02 December 2007 -- Rotary
International recently announced a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation that will inject a much-needed $200 million into the global campaign
to eradicate polio, a crippling and sometimes fatal disease that still paralyzes
children in parts of Africa, Asia and the Middle East and threatens children
everywhere.
The
Rotary Foundation has received a $100 million Gates Foundation grant, which
Rotary will raise funds to match, dollar-for-dollar, over three years.
The
Evanston-based volunteer service organization will spend the initial $100
million within one year in direct support of immunization activities carried out
by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), a partnership spearheaded by
the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, and UNICEF.
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