Annual Meeting Davos 2024 - Top Vaccine Expert Bill Gates

"A great example of that is now the factories that make mRNA vaccines. A group in Belgium funded by the foundation can make those very inexpensively. And for me, the issue is not having vaccine factories in magic places. It's having enough capacity in the entire world that we can get vaccines to everyone. Who you want to discriminate against. If the factories are cheap, you're going to have that capacity. In fact, more vaccines were made in India. We funded serum two months into the pandemic. They created a factory. We had a challenge that those vaccines, which were going to Africa for a period, became unavailable. But that was a South issue that challenged that We really need to up the dialogue of given limited resources. Where should the grant money go? I would claim that nutrition and vaccines will always rise to the top of that list. And so as we see, is GAVI replenished later this year, it'll show, are we maintaining the very highest impact investment that was ever made? And likewise, on the innovation agenda. President Kagame and I were talking about how Rwanda's moving forward on these digital initiatives and making multiple places in the South, including Rwanda, India, and many others a laboratory where AI healthcare, AI education is done not five or ten years after it's done in the North, but done at the same time. And in fact, given their shortage of doctors. In some sense, you could say it should be even faster. And if we can find the right cooperative effort, I think we can surprise people on how quickly we provide benefits there."