Why is a PC billionaire interested in Vaccines?

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http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/02/03/gupta.gates.vaccines.world.health/

Did Bill Gates just say, " ...reduce childhood death... " and " ...reduce

population growth... " in the same sentence.

I thought I heard him say this!!!

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Yes, he said that. It's written in the transcript of the interview below the video. Can you believe it?Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Ten billion dollars [pledged] over the next 10 years to make it "the year of the vaccines." What does that mean exactly?Bill Gates: Over this decade, we believe unbelievable progress can be made, in both inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who need them. We could cut the number of children who die every year from about 9 million to half of that, if we have success on it. We have to do three things in parallel: Eradicate the few that fit that profile -- ringworm and polio; get the coverage up for the vaccines we have; and then invent the vaccines -- and we only need about six or seven more -- and then you would have all the tools to reduce childhood death, reduce population growth, and everything -- the stability, the environment -- benefits from that. http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/02/03/gupta.gates.vaccines.world.health/Did Bill Gates just say, "...reduce childhood death..." and "...reduce population growth..." in the same sentence.I thought I heard him say this!!!