
"Hush up, Bill... Now, lemme tell you about me..."
Gohd… I was being sarcastic…
Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, announced that they are investing $10 billion into a 10-year program that will focus on providing vaccines for AIDS, tuberculosis, rota virus and pneumonia to countries around the world!
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Bill and Melinda, who have recently been devoting the majority of their time to their philanthropic foundation, said that the potential impact of providing these vaccines early enough to people, especially children, who need them, is paramount:
“Vaccines are a miracle. With just a few doses, they can prevent deadly diseases for a lifetime. We’ve made vaccines our priority at the Gates Foundation because we’ve seen firsthand their incredible impact on children’s lives. By significantly scaling up the delivery of life-saving vaccines in developing countries to 90 percent coverage — including new vaccines to prevent severe diarrhea and pneumonia — the model suggests that we could prevent the deaths of some 7.6 million children under 5 from 2010-2019.”
Pretty amazing, right? I mean, there is a lot of super frightening disease out there…
But, I’ll tell you this, if Bill Gates finds a vaccine that prevents “severe diarrhea“, then that little pisher will finally earn my respect…