United Nations: UNICEF on Tuesday welcomed $4.3 billion raised from public and private donors at the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) conference in London.
International donors at the conference on Monday pledged $ 4.3 billion to vaccinate nearly 250 million children against life-threatening diseases such as pneumonia and diarrhoea.
"The outcome of this pledging conference is exciting and tremendous news which will save millions of lives of the most threatened children around the world," said UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake.
In a press statement UNICEF said the GAVI Alliance, UNICEF and partners aimed to save an additional four million children's lives by 2015 by increasing access to new and traditional vaccines.
At present, nearly two million children still die each year from vaccine-preventable diseases. "UNICEF renews its pledge to redouble our own efforts
to help governments and other partners deliver vaccines to the hardest to reach children," said Lake.
In 2010, UNICEF purchased around 2.53 billion doses of traditional and new vaccines worth $ 750 million on behalf of GAVI and developing countries.
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