Bill Gates speaking at a press conference at the end of the GAVI Alliance pledging event

Over 80 million under-fives living in some of the poorest countries in the world will be vaccinated against killer diseases like pneumonia and diarrhoea with the help of British aid as part of a broader collective effort.

At the end of a four-hour push to save lives hosted by David Cameron, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (President of Liberia) and Bill Gates (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), it was announced that $4.3billion had been pledges towards vaccinating at least a quarter of a billion children in the next five years, in order to save the lives of four million children.

To find out more, please see: www.dfid.gov.uk/Media-Room/News-Stories/2011/GAVI-Pledgin...

Picture: Ben Fisher/GAVI Alliance

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