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GAVI Alliance recommends improvements to make humanitarian aid more efficient
GAVI officials said an increased use of household surveys in monitoring aid effectiveness is needed, where appropriate, and that further investment should be made in new technologies for data collection and management. However, data collection needs to be tailored to the needs and objectives of each country.
These recommendations were presented following a two-day meeting of a GAVI data task team, a group of independent epidemiologists, statisticians, and global health experts that the alliance set up to examine ways to improve data collection and quality for development initiatives.
Read moreReport recognises the severity of pneumococcal and endorses AMC
The GAVI Alliance has welcomed a new report by the UK's All Party Group on Pneumococcal Disease Prevention (APPG), which highlights the devastating global health burden caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, a group of bacteria that kills up to one million children every year.
Providing strong evidence from governments, multilateral agencies, NGOs, pharmaceutical companies and funding organizations about the human and economic burden of pneumococcal disease, the report endorses the pilot mechanism to accelerate pneumococcal vaccines, known as the Advance Market Commitment (AMC).
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