A healthcare worker from the World Health Organization preparing Ebola vaccines to give to front line aid workers. The vaccine alliance GAVI has announced it would invest US$178mil to create a global stockpile of about 500,000 Ebola vaccines, in a move health officials say could help prevent future outbreaks from spiraling out of control. - AP
New Delhi: Charity alliance Gavi said that it would create a stockpile of 500,000 Ebola vaccines that low-income countries will be able to access for free as they attempt to battle outbreaks of the deadly virus.
"This is a historic milestone in humanity's fight against this horrific disease," Gavi chairwoman Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said in a statement announcing the $178 million funding for the stockpile, which will be disbursed between now and 2025.
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