EU steps up its efforts to improve the health of millions in developing countries

EU News 232/2014

Brussels, 20 May 2014
IP/14/571

European Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso, has today announced that the EU will provide €25 million per year in the period 2014-2020 to fund vaccines and immunisation programmes worldwide.

The new support – more than double that previously committed, when on average €10 million per year were provided - will go to the GAVI Alliance (formerly the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation), a non-profit organisation focused on saving children's lives and protecting people's health by increasing access to immunisation in poor countries.

Source and additional information:
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-571_en.htm?locale=en

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