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Committed $1.18 billion in global health grants in a single year
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In 1999, the Gates Foundation committed $1.18 billion in global health grants — a single-year total exceeding the annual public health budgets of many mid-sized nations. The unprecedented scale of philanthropic commitment galvanized governments and multilateral institutions to increase their own investments in diseases primarily affecting low-income countries. This year's grants heavily seeded the founding commitments to GAVI, polio eradication, malaria research, and tuberculosis drug development.
Source: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/foundation-fact-sheet
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