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Teleconference with Bill Gates: why he’s investing in vaccines

Tomorrow is a big day for the world’s poorest children. David Cameron is hosting a summit for the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisations that will attempt to fill a $3.7billion funding gap.  They have four hours to save four million lives by funding lifesaving vaccines for the world’s most vulnerable kids.

Today we hosted a phone call for hundreds of supporters with Bill Gates,  Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Natasha Kaplinsky, Save the Children Ambassador, and Justin Forsyth; our CEO.

Taking questions from around the world -from the US, to India, to the UK- Bill Gates and Justin Forsyth made an emphatic case for why world leaders, philanthropists, big business and ordinary citizens should all be so passionate about the campaign to vaccinate every child against deadly diseases.

Asking supporter’s questions like ‘are the drug companies charging a fair price?’, ‘how can I make a practical difference?’ and ‘what strategies influence world leaders to save millions of children?’ Natasha Kaplinksky also told us about her experience seeing the difference that vaccines were making in India and urged us all to keep the campaign going so that we can save as many children as possible.

Here at Save the Children we’ve been lobbying politicians hard, spreading the word about how vaccines save children’s lives through the media and over 46,000 of you have taken action to get a deal that saves 4 million lives.

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