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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced its largest annual budget to date as it works toward a healthier, more prosperous world for all. 
Its board of trustees formally approved the foundation’s $8.6 billion 2024 budget on January 13, 2024. The new budget represents an increase of 4% over 2023.
At the foundation’s “The Future of Health” event at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Bill Gates will showcase several health innovations the foundation has funded and its partners have been developing.

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) recently launched a Make Polio History campaign to rally supporters of polio eradication. This effort included the novel oral polio type 2 (nOPV2) vaccine, which was launched in response to poliovirus type 2 outbreaks,
Over the past three years, approximately 1 billion nOPV2 doses have been administered in more than 35 countries worldwide, says the GPEI.

As the world looks forward to a healthy 2024, various health agencies recently reported signs of changing influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) detections.
From a global perspective, the World Health Organization (WHO) Influenza Update N° 462 confirmed the influenza season increased in the temperate Northern Hemisphere,