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Gates, U.K. Boost Polio Funding to Speed End of Crippling Virus
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Bill Gates and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron announced as much as $166 million in extra financing for polio eradication, easing a shortfall in funding that hinders a global effort to stop the crippling virus.
The U.K. will double its current contribution to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which plans to eliminate the disease in two years, Cameron said today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Billionaire Gates, whose charitable foundation has provided more than $1 billion for polio programs in the past decade, announced that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will contribute $102 million in additional funding.