Global health heavyweights team up for climate change, infectious diseases funding

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Denmark's Minister for Development Cooperation and Global Climate Policy, Dan Jorgensen, and Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, shake hands as they sign a so-called MoU to strengthen ties to find solutions to the consequences of climate change for global health in Copenhagen in Denmark on Monday..

Three of the biggest global health funders have joined forces for the first time in a $300 million partnership aimed at tackling the linked impacts of climate change, malnutrition, infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance...

The Novo Nordisk Foundation, Wellcome and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced the research partnership, focused particularly on finding affordable solutions for people in low and middle-income countries, in Denmark on Monday.. Each will put $100 million into the three-year initiative...

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