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The Seattle-based Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation has awarded the 2002 Gates Award for Global Health to
the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International. The award, which is
administered by the Global Health Council, recognizes Rotary's
leadership and impact in the field of public health, in particular
the organization's efforts to eradicate polio by 2005.
Rotary has contributed over $462 million toward polio eradication
and has mobilized more than one million Rotary members to help
immunize some two billion children it 122 countries.
The Gates Foundation established the $1 million award to recognize
an organization that has made a major and lasting contribution to
the field of global health. Melinda Gates Foundation had assets of
more than $21 billion and made grants totaling $995 million in the
year ending 2000.
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