SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan on Sept 21 pledged more than US$3bil (RM12.40bil) toward a plan to "cure, prevent or manage all disease within our children's lifetime."
Speaking through tears at a San Francisco event to announce the initiative, Chan said she hoped to spare parents the pain she had seen while delivering difficult news as a paediatrician.
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