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Countries have pledged an unprecedented $4.3bn to help vaccinate children against preventable diseases like pneumonia.<\/p>\n

The Global Alliance on Vaccines and Immunisation says this funding milestone will save more than four million lives in the next four years.<\/p>\n

The donations exceeded expectations – GAVI asked for $3.7bn (\u00a32.3bn).<\/p>\n

The UK promised $1.3bn (\u00a3814m), and Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates said he would give $1bn to the campaign.<\/p>\n

Other donors include Norway, giving $677m, and the US, giving $450m, as well as Sweden, The Netherlands, Australia, France, Germany and Italy.<\/p>\n

The UK has already committed more than any other nation – \u00a32bn over 30 years.<\/p>\n

The extra \u00a3814m comes on top of the UK’s existing commitment of \u00a3680m between 2011 and 2015.<\/p>\n

‘A promise’<\/p>\n

Prime Minister David Cameron said there was a “strong moral case” for keeping pledges Britain had made to the developing world, no matter the economic circumstances at home.<\/p>\n

“Today we come together because we have the chance to save another four million lives.”<\/p>\n

He said the idea of children dying from pneumonia and diarrhoea should be “unthinkable” in 2011.<\/p>\n

“To those who say fine but we should put off seeing through those promises to another day because right now we can’t afford to help: I say – we can’t afford to wait.”<\/p>\n

Two million under-fives die from pneumonia alone each year despite the existence of a vaccine to protect them.<\/p>\n

Source: BBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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