I don't like any of the options because there isn't a resounding 'yes'.

I can just imagine the Daily Heil press foaming at the mouth.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13751809

The second option is 'yes.'

Bill Gates is chucking in a Billion.

Only mildly and with conditions. I've seen African poverty at first hand and we will never match up to that kind of need, so yes, especially as there will be a different way of paying which means that the dictator doesn't get his sweaty hands on it.

Good for him. Isn't he determind to spend most of his money on world improvement?

Yes Cologne he has a charitable foundation and has stated many times he will give away most of his cash.

It will help save 1.4 million lives over the next 5 years.Children are dying of preventable diseases ,which is wrong.

Gavi will make sure that 80% of monies will be spent on vaccine,and the other 20% will support the health workers there.

Is this a foreign indulgence, should we get our own house in order,I'm torn to be honest.

A resounding Yes.

 

13p per person per week for the next 4 years - that is what it is costing us in the UK. And it will go to save the lives of millions of children who would otherwise die unnecessarily.

You're wrong.  It says yes, ... there's no 'conditions....' 

 

 

No problems at all! A simple, cheap, and efficient way of saving lives.

Yes.. It's OK to give it, because although we are suffering somewhat.

That's not a straight forward 'yes'.

Whatever you say or think Cologne, it is a YES.. 

 

And....there's no 'conditions'  I can see we aren't going to agree on this, but the second option is a yes.  There are no conditions...  I made the poll and I can tell you that the second option is a yes.  So if you think YES, then tick that one.  If you don't want to partake, then don't...

Well, I appear to have to labour the point. Have an option that just says 'yes', instead of telling us that the country is suffering.  

Cos that's the way that CC wanted to word it 

I'd rather the money went to this cause than the feckin' bankers bonuses etc.

Point Katty! 

This country has never been in such an appalling state financially, (not in the lifetimes of most people alive today anyway,)

 

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yes it has  and  its still one of the richest countries on earth, so let   not pretend that not having  a new telly  / car/ house/mince instead of steak.. is in any way comparable with kids dying  from preventable diseases , just cos they aren't  our kids.

How much are the Olympic games costing? ..billions..and what return to the areas they have bulldozed  "redeveloped"..probably not much I suspect.

emphatic yes. spending billions on vaccines is a darn sight better than the spend on hardware like tanks and missiles to police the world's ideas. healthy nations (hopefully) become wealthy nations and more consumers of stuff we might want to peddle to them (the affluent west might be able to recoup their investment, if that makes you feel better cupcake).

Someone on radio 2 said this afternoon on this very subject that "charity begins at home"!!

Asides from the obvious "this planet is our home!!" there is also a case to be made for.. this isn't even charity! It's simply [starting to] repay[ing] a debt that we owe to the world for all the robbing we did(do) to maintain our standard of living.

Though I'm astounded that the US have committed less

Yes, without a doubt.

 

In fact, stop splashing out money on un-winnable wars (or any wars for that matter) and double the donation

We're human beings. We should never stand by and watch other human beings die of diseases that there are vaccines for.

I'd have liked a "Hell, yes!" option, but Hell yes! 

Well I'm going to disagree with most here I think.

Yes it's right that we have a foreign aid programme and yes, we do owe a lot of reparations to developing countries for all the damage we did in the past but.........

I don't think we should fund one THIRD of the entire programme which is what I heard on the news yesterday. What's wrong with expecting all the other old colonial powers like Spain, Portugal, France etc to do their share, not to mention the USA, the richest country on earth by a good long way.

And as for Bill Gates giving a million. The Parable of the Widows Mite comes to mind

Forgot to say, regardless of what I said above, I would much rather money was spent on Aid than the military and the bankers

Gates is giving 600 milliion?

I thought the news said yesterday that he was giving one million. Apologies if I misheard it

no-one really lives in poverty here like they do in foreign lands but i think its a bit much or maybe it isnt-i dunno

i think i'd prefer it if the money wasnt just doled out to the countries involved and the UK public could see clinics set up so we could see the money being used properly and for what it was meant for-not for some despot buying a new rolls royce etc..a bit like comic relief, when they show you where the money has gone-id be more than pleased to see kids getting well etc..

and if im wrong in anything ive said dont moan lol

Bill Gates is giving one billion dollars = £600 million.

It's said the drug companies that supply the vaccine,do so at a very high profit.I do hope that is not the case.

The firm who spent 200 million on a meningitis - diphtheria - pertussis vaccine will never get their money back. I think another firm tried to sue South Africa for using generic drugs but in general I understand that the vaccines used are dirt cheap and probably out of licence.

no it's not the case. the drug comanpy involved is supplying at cost.

Glad to hear that,cheers.