Today is an important moment in our collective commitment to protecting children in developing countries from disease, said Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who attended the pledging conference in London. “But every 20 seconds, a child still dies of a vaccine-preventable disease. There’s more work to be done”, he further added in his statement.British Prime Minister, David Cameron has earlier also put his best efforts in defending increased spending on aid during the time when there were sharp domestic spending cuts and thus now also he has pledged $1.3 billion for the help, which is almost a third of the total raised but is definitely more than the $3.7 billion that GAVI had hoped for.
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