Monday, May 9, 2016

Gates Foundation Gives $38M For Polio Eradication Effort

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given $38 million to help support the eradication of polio in developing countries, specifically to help fund the purchase of vaccines, according to pharmaceuticals firm Takeda Pharmaceutical. Takeda said over the weekend that it will develop, license, and supply at least 50 million doses per year of Sabin-strain inactivated poliovirus vaccine (sIPV) to more than 70 developing countries, as a result of the funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.