January 29, 2010 05:42 pm | Updated 06:10 pm IST - DAVOS
Microsoft founder Bill Gates looks on during a panel discussion on "Meeting the Millennium Development Goals", at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Friday.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda say their foundation will donate $10 billion over the next decade to research new vaccines and bring them to the world’s poorest countries.
Bill Gates said in a statement issued on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos that “We must make this the decade of vaccines.”
Gates added that “Innovation will make it possible to save more children than ever before.”
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