Bid to save Third World children from disease

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GORDON BROWN today launched a multi-billion pound European plan to save the lives of ten million children in developing countries through immunisation against diseases.The Chancellor hopes to raise £2.2 billion over the next ten years in a bid to cut the massive Third World death toll from immunisable diseases such as measles, polio, hepatitis B, tetanus and diphtheria.

The cash will be channelled through the International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIM) with the UK providing £70 million - 35 per cent of the money raised.In addition France has pledged £54 million a year and today Spain, Italy and Sweden will announce their contributions to IFFIM.Microsoft computer magnate Bill Gates has also promised to provide £408 million over ten years through his Gates Foundation…

And Microsoft founder Mr Gates praised the commitments and Mr Brown’s work as a major boost …He said: “I commend the UK, France, Italy, Spain and Sweden for their generosity and Gordon Brown for his tireless work to make this announcement possible.” Every year 27 million children are not vaccinated against the most common childhood diseases. Between two and three million children die annually from easily preventable diseases.
 
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news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1913472005

GORDON BROWN today launched a multi-billion pound European plan to save the lives of ten million children in developing countries through immunisation against diseases.The Chancellor hopes to raise £2.2 billion over the next ten years in a bid to cut the massive Third World death toll from immunisable diseases such as measles, polio, hepatitis B, tetanus and diphtheria.

The cash will be channelled through the International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIM) with the UK providing £70 million - 35 per cent of the money raised.In addition France has pledged £54 million a year and today Spain, Italy and Sweden will announce their contributions to IFFIM.Microsoft computer magnate Bill Gates has also promised to provide £408 million over ten years through his Gates Foundation…

And Microsoft founder Mr Gates praised the commitments and Mr Brown’s work as a major boost …He said: “I commend the UK, France, Italy, Spain and Sweden for their generosity and Gordon Brown for his tireless work to make this announcement possible.” Every year 27 million children are not vaccinated against the most common childhood diseases. Between two and three million children die annually from easily preventable diseases.
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And let us all pray that those that rule these countries will allow this to happen. Immunization has been refused for the people in the third world before. :banghead:
 
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And let us all pray that those that rule these countries will allow this to happen. Immunization has been refused for the people in the third world before. :banghead:
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One interesting development is in gene splicing. There is a project to splice genes into bananas, so eating them will immunize children against several diseases.

Since bananas in the Third World, and since they grow fast, the idea is to replace all bananas with the gene-spliced versions.
 
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One interesting development is in gene splicing. There is a project to splice genes into bananas, so eating them will immunize children against several diseases.

Since bananas in the Third World, and since they grow fast, the idea is to replace all bananas with the gene-spliced versions.
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IMHO I think doing so is self defeating. Distrust of American motives run high in third world countries. We should not give them more fuel for the fire.:banghead:
 
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IMHO I think doing so is self defeating. Distrust of American motives run high in third world countries. We should not give them more fuel for the fire.:banghead:
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The United States Administration is not involved in this project. Bill Gates is acting as an individual not a representative of his country
 
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The United States Administration is not involved in this project. Bill Gates is acting as an individual not a representative of his country
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Wait three more posts and someone will pop up and claim Bill Gates is an agent of the CIAhttp://forums.catholic-questions.org/images/icons/icon12.gif.
 
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Wait three more posts and someone will pop up and claim Bill Gates is an agent of the CIAhttp://forums.catholic-questions.org/images/icons/icon12.gif.
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You mean he isn’t. LOL:bigyikes:

But really the simple fact he is American and rich will cause distrust. Vern if I can remember the book “The Ugly American” so can you. Any American’s motives are suspect. Look at the polio vaccine problems in the mideast and parts of africa. Can you just immagine the uproar if someone started a rumor that pig genes were used in the products being put on the market.
 
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You mean he isn’t. LOL:bigyikes:

But really the simple fact he is American and rich will cause distrust. Vern if I can remember the book “The Ugly American” so can you. Any American’s motives are suspect. Look at the polio vaccine problems in the mideast and parts of africa. Can you just immagine the uproar if someone started a rumor that pig genes were used in the products being put on the market.
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This is one of those things where we can’t win. If we do it, they hate us. If we don’t do it, all the disease is our fault.

I say, go ahead and do what’s right and let them call us all the names they want.
 
vern humphrey:
This is one of those things where we can’t win. If we do it, they hate us. If we don’t do it, all the disease is our fault.

I say, go ahead and do what’s right and let them call us all the names they want.
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You mean you want the US administration to join this European initiative?
 
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