BERLIN (Reuters) - International donors pledged $7.5 billion (5 billion pounds) on Tuesday to immunise 300 million children in poor countries against deadly diseases such as diarrhoea and pneumonia.
At a Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) conference in Berlin, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and the British government topped the donations list at $1.55 billion and $1.5 billion respectively.
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