The Gates Foundation's "Grand Challenges Explorations" grant program never fails to offer up some of the most interesting, exciting ideas to improve global health around the world. Today we announced more than $8.1 million in new grants through this program - some for projects which are in development, some of which were presented as brand new ideas. All of which are ground-breaking.

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In just one week, we’ve learned that the leading causes of childhood diarrheal disease include a vaccine preventable target – rotavirus - and that a new rotavirus vaccine, developed by Indian scientists works better than expected and will be made available to children in poor countries for a price of just $1.00 per dose.

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217 years ago today, May 14, Edward Jenner vaccinated a young, eight-year-old James Phipps against smallpox. That moment marked a new chapter for humanity, with the first person on the planet ever being immunized. I could not have imagined a more befitting way to honor and celebrate that anniversary than today’s announcement in Delhi on India’s progress toward the development of a rotavirus vaccine.

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Imagining a future for you children should not be an amazing, surprising idea. But three years ago, on a similar visit to Bihar, I didn’t see hope. I saw extreme poverty, people living a daily existence, striving to survive that day. Now, there is hope. Mothers have embraced the expectation that things will get better.

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The Global Fund for Children teamed up with Catapult to raise funds for a project that will provide 340 adolescent girls in India with basic education and reproductive health programming. Support them!

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