$3 billion for global malaria campaign

5 October 2008

A group of international organizations, public and private, has pledged nearly $3.0 billion as part of a new scheme, the Global Malaria Action Plan, which aims to "eradicate malaria" by 2015. The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria is raising $1.6 billion and the World Bank a further $1.1 billion. The other major donor is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has pledged $168.7 million to fund the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, an R&D project.

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