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		</div><p>Boris Johnson has urged world leaders to join together and focus their “collective ingenuity” on the search for a coronavirus vaccine that is affordable and available to all.</p>
<p>The British Prime Minister made the call as he opened the Gavi vaccine alliance summit seeking to raise £6 billion to immunise 300 million children against infectious diseases within five years.</p>
<p>Mr Johnson said the UK would remain the world’s leading donor to the partnership, contributing £1.65 billion over the next five years.</p>
<p>And he urged foreign leaders to “join us to fortify this lifesaving alliance, and inaugurate a new era of global health co-operation which I believe is now the most essential shared endeavour of our lifetimes”.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">WATCH: PM <a href="https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BorisJohnson</a> opens the Global Vaccine Summit, calling on countries to back <a href="https://twitter.com/gavi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Gavi</a>, the Global Vaccine Alliance, in the fight against the world’s deadliest diseases.<br /> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/VaccinesWork?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#VaccinesWork</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GVS2020?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GVS2020</a> <a href="https://t.co/XIILWus8hF">pic.twitter.com/XIILWus8hF</a></p>
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<p>Representatives from 50 countries are expected to join the virtual summit, hosted by the UK, which comes against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic.</p>
<p>If the funding target is met, it is hoped 300 million children in the world’s poorest nations could be vaccinated against diseases like polio, diphtheria and measles by 2025.</p>
<p>Mr Johnson said: “To defeat coronavirus we must focus our collective ingenuity on the search for a vaccine and ensure that countries, pharmaceutical companies and international partners, like the World Health Organisation, co-operate on a scale beyond anything we have seen before.</p>
<p>“We must use the collective purchasing power of Gavi, the vaccine alliance, to make that future vaccine affordable and available to all who need it.</p>
<p>“If we are to make this the beginning of a new era of global health collaboration, we must also replenish the funding for the vaccines we already have, strengthening the routine immunisation against preventable diseases in the poorest countries.”</p>
<p>Mr Johnson will deliver a keynote speech later on Thursday.</p>
<p>Microsoft founder Bill Gates will also address the summit and at least 35 heads of state or government are expected to attend.</p>
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