Global health heavyweights team up for climate, disease funding

FILE PHOTO: A boy receives a polio vaccine during a three-day immunization campaign in Sanaa, Yemen November 29, 2020. REUTERS/Nusaibah Almuaalemi//File Photo

LONDON (Reuters) - Three of the biggest global health funders have joined forces for the first time in a $300 million partnership aimed at tackling the linked impacts of climate change, malnutrition, and infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance.

The Novo Nordisk Foundation, Wellcome and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced the research partnership, focused particularly on finding affordable solutions for people in low and middle-income countries, in Denmark on Monday.