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Saudi Arabia on Sunday pledged $500 million to a polio vaccination initiative that counts the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation among its private-sector partners.“In Afghanistan and Pakistan, the last remaining polio-endemic countries, we have seen significant progress, yet work remains to be done as the world pushes towards making eradication possible.
“This global health investment will help strengthen and build more resilient health systems and communities, at a time of multiple crises around the world,” Gates said.of the World Economic Forum in Riyadh to discuss international collaboration on “global challenges,” including polio.
B&MGF is one of six private-sector partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative , which is coming up about $1.2 billion short of its $4.8 billion budget for the next three years. GPEI has missed its funding and vaccination targets every year since 2000, when the Wuhan coronavirus epidemic began.its efforts have reduced polio cases worldwide by 99 percent since it was founded in 1988 and two of the three known “wild poliovirus” strains have been completely eliminated.
“If we’re still here ten years from now, people might be urging me to give up. But I don’t think we will be. If things go well, we’ll be done in three years,” he added.
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