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Saving children’s lives through immunisation

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The Australian Government has committed to providing more than seven million children with lifesaving vaccinations through its new pledge to the GAVI Alliance.

Attending the opening of the GAVI 'Saving Children's Lives' conference in London on Monday 13 June, Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd announced that Australia will provide an additional $140 million from 2011 to 2013 to support the GAVI Alliance in its efforts to combat two of the biggest childhood killers in the developing world—pneumonia from pneumococcal disease and diarrhoea triggered by rotavirus.

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19 Feb 2009

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Experts recommend ways of coping with increasing droughts

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— World Meteorological Organization

Press Release No.837

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Geneva/Beijing, 19 February 2009 (WMO) - International experts gathered in Beijing (China), from 16 to 17 February 2009 to review the increasing frequency and severity of droughts and extreme temperature events around the world. More than 40 scientists from climate and agricultural research institutes, universities and environmental monitoring organizations participated in the International Workshop on Drought and Extreme Temperatures organized jointly by the World Meteorological

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