New Funding To Protect 370 Million Children From Polio Every Year

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - OCTOBER 11: Co-founding of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill Gates delivers a speech during a ceremony on New funding, to protect 370 million children from polio every year in the Berlaymont, the EU Commission headquarter on October 11, 2023 in Brussels, Belgium. Today, the European Commission, the European Investment Bank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new financing partnership to address critical global health opportunities: eradicating polio and ensuring that innovations in health are more accessible to the people who need them most. The World Health Organization and UNICEF, as implementing partners for the polio funding, will deploy the resources to eradicate polio, support the distribution of other childhood immunizations and strengthen health systems so they are better able to respond to emerging health threats. (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)