Bill Gates And Prince Of Abu Dhabi Prince Pledge Vaccine Funds

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Bill Gates' foundation and Abu Dhabi's crown prince are donating $50 million each to vaccinate children in Afghanistan and Pakistan against polio and other diseases.

Sheik Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation say two-thirds of the funds will go toward a pair of vaccines against pneumonia, diphtheria, whooping cough and other ailments afflicting young children in Afghanistan. The rest will be given to the World Health Organization and UNICEF to provide polio vaccines in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Gates recently told The Associated Press eradicating polio is his top priority, and that he's planning to announce a major donation to the effort in Davos, Switzerland on Friday.

Comments

[Star2000dancer]

10:56 PM on 01/27/2011

Besides not freezing people's PAID BENEFITS, calling them ENTITLEMEN­TS, how about the fraud, abuse, unethical behavior, & kickbacks in Mediacal & Dental Universiti­es? UMDNJ DEFRAUDED Medicare & Medicaid. NY Times, David Kocieniews­ki 11/24/2006­.

Universiti­es need to be monitored. SUNY destroys teeth, mutlates mouths, ruins lives like they're experiment­al rats. When you're no longer of any use to students,y­ou're thrown out with no recourse. SUNY has been inept & abusive to me. SUNY should be accountabl­e for what they destroyed and have to "fix" the damage, but they refuse. I'd Been a great patient for 25yrs.,lov­ed them. In 1994 they lost my files and never heard of me. I needed a bonding & cleaning. Now I need bone grafts & a full set of teeth.

Medicare & Medicaid paid for that. I've been trying to get them investigat­e this scandal since 1994. Instead my mouth just got worst, I've had 26 shots & 28 shots another time even though I'd been traumatize­d by shots as a child.

I was arched up screaming, tears pouring.wh­ile they said "Shut up or we'll stop working on you. You're getting this for free!" They tore out permanent bridges & left me with holes. I had to stop work, eating healthy, socializin­g, go to therapy, even the ER after my appointmen­t.

My hair turned white, stood up straight, & started falling out for 10 years. I just got it back after they threw me out. My life is ruined,thi­s has happened to many other patients.

[zootliberal]

08:21 PM on 01/27/2011

this man puts his money where the it belongs, would that more billionaires be like him.

[binspired]

08:18 PM on 01/27/2011

it was proven 3 yeaRS AGO THE FLU VACCINE WAS DIRTY WATER IN MILLIONS OF VIALS THANKYOU DRUG COMPANIES IN CHINA AND MEXICO

[Sheldon101]

08:42 PM on 01/27/2011

Thanks for the erudite comment, eloquently expressing your views on flu vaccination. By the way, is the funding going to influenza vaccine?

[binspired]

08:12 PM on 01/27/2011

Vaccines in the pure form is NOT the problem...it's the drug companies making them which are mostly in China and Mexico

[merlinspinoza]

07:12 PM on 01/27/2011

it is amazing how many authors of blogs are ignorant or unaccepting of the cure : transcendental meditation(TM) and Maharishi Ayur Veda

Bill Gates foundation hasnot accepted the knowledge that DR Klenner cured polio {JAMA 1949]

logically vitamin C [[ and enough antioxident free radical scavengers in the diet etc ]]also prevents it

Bill Gates [ and to some extant huffpost in not mentioning vitamin C foundation ]arrogantly clings to godless modernity....god fearing oldality was bad enough

[binspired]

08:08 PM on 01/27/2011

I'm sure Afghanistand and Pakistan can afford enough antioxidant free radical scavngers when they can't afford a piece of bread

[Joseph J Schuler]

08:08 PM on 01/27/2011

Funny ayurvedic medicine did not stop the scourge of polio. Vaccination has.

[AllyCat7]

02:49 PM on 01/27/2011

This is very kind of them. Hopefully, the vaccines are safe.

[lilady]

11:23 AM on 01/27/2011

For anyone who doesn't get their medical information from Facebook, about vaccine preventable diseases; key in "vaccine-preventable diseases photos"...to see actual pictures of individuals with the diseases that vaccines prevent.

[Conk]

10:52 AM on 01/27/2011

Maybe if we're nice Mr. Gates will also agree to gouge our eyes and stomp our toes into a bloody pulp. No thanks Gates. Go away.

[Acert]

11:06 AM on 01/27/2011

I was wondering how long it would take the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists to show up.

[Bike Commuter]

11:11 AM on 01/27/2011

They tend to come in waves.

[Sonic hedgehog]

06:16 PM on 01/27/2011

Do you have any Afghan children or are you just talking while sitting on your privileged american bottom!

[bresponsible]

09:24 AM on 01/27/2011

I commend all efforts to stop disease and hunger. We actually have it here in America too,let us not forget.

[peegan]

09:59 AM on 01/27/2011

These vaccines are readily available to all here in America. Unfortunately, it is misinformation about them that has led to a rise in American children not being vaccinated.

[WOODSTOCKER51]

10:03 AM on 01/27/2011

MORE TEABAGGER 'FEAR"...."THE GOV IS TRYING TO INJECT YOU WITH SOCIALIST THOUGHTS"....

.WHY DONT THESE WACKOS JUST GO CREATE ANOTHER COUNTRY.I HEAR ANTARTICA IS NOT THAT POPULATED..I AM SURE SOMETHING CAN BE WORKED OUT....:)

[Conk]

10:50 AM on 01/27/2011

There is no misinformation. There is ignorance of the fact that vaccines are DANGEROUS and ineffective. This cannot be refutted, having examined the hard evidence. Just go to YouTube and search 'vaccine dangers' or something similar. You'll be sick to your stomach after watching. The people pushing these poisons should be jailed!