Gates makes $10 billion vaccines pledge

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and
his wife Melinda say their foundation will donate $10 billion over
the next decade to research new vaccines and bring them to the
world's poorest countries.

Bill Gates said in a statement issued on the sidelines of the
World Economic Forum in Davos that "we must make this the decade
of vaccines."

Gates added that "innovation will make it possible to save more
children than ever before."