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Gates Foundation Leads Global Measles and Rubella Elimination Initiative
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The Gates Foundation co-created the Measles Initiative — later renamed the Measles and Rubella Initiative — with the American Red Cross, CDC, UNICEF, and WHO, mobilising over $200 million to fund vaccination campaigns across more than 40 African and 3 Asian countries. The initiative reduced global measles deaths by 99 percent in its first decade of operation. Gates funding also supported development of a microneedle patch delivering measles-rubella vaccine without refrigeration or needles, tested in The Gambia.
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