Press releases
| 12 December 2008 | GAVI Alliance recommends improvements to make humanitarian aid more efficient Poor and inaccurate information is hampering global aid efforts to improve the lives of the world’s poor but greater coordination, transparency and investment can significantly increase the impact of humanitarian aid, GAVI Alliance officials stated today. Read more |
| 02 December 2008 | Financed by the GAVI Alliance, massive campaign is launched
to prevent outbreak A contribution of US$ 11 million from the GAVI Alliance has enabled the Government of Burkina Faso to initiate an immediate preventive immunisation campaign against yellow fever for 7.9 million people in high risk zones of the country. Read more Other languages: Français |
| 28 November 2008 | Germany to further support for life-saving vaccines
To further protect millions of children in the developing world against life-threatening diseases, the Government of Germany has committed an additional four million Euros to the GAVI Alliance. Read more |
| 26 November 2008 | GAVI Alliance to vacinate an additional 6.6 million children against three killer diseases Responding to increased demand by poor countries to immunise children under five, the GAVI Alliance has committed to fund an additional US$ 134 million in new and continued programmes yesterday for vaccines against rotavirus, pneumococcal disease and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib). The programmes will support 11 countries and provide vaccines to an estimated 6.6 million children. Read more |
| 30 October 2008 | Robinson to lead efforts to strengthen global immunisation Former President of Ireland and High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson will lead the GAVI Alliance’s new executive board, created today to strengthen the organisation’s ability to meet global health challenges. “I feel humbled and honored to be elected,” said Robinson. “Over these past few years, I have witnessed GAVI achieve extraordinary success through its unique public and private approach to improving the health of the world’s poor, especially children." Read more |
| 28 October 2008 | New immunisation figures to be presented at GAVI Board meeting in Geneva
3.4 million deaths will be averted in the world’s poorest countries through immunisation funded by the GAVI Alliance between 2000 and 2008, according to new data released by the World Health Organization (WHO). Read more |
| 25 September 2008 | At General Assembly event, a call for equity and action on development goals UNICEF wesbsite – On the opening day of the United Nations General Assembly session yesterday, UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman said there is a long way to go to reach the Millennium Development Goals by their 2015 target date. And the challenges are greatest in countries dealing with conflict and post-conflict situations, as well as those most affected by HIV/AIDS.
Her comments were reinforced by Executive Secretary Julian Lob-Levyt of the GAVI Alliance, a public-private partnership focused on extending the reach and quality of immunization coverage for children in the poorest countries.
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| 24 September 2008 | Development leaders point to significant progress in mother and child health and reduction of malaria and HIV/AIDS deaths in poorest nations Significant progress towards reducing child and maternal mortality is being made but to meet the Millennium Development Goals 4,5,6, strategies aimed at reaching the world’s most inaccessible, marginalized and vulnerable populations will be required, health leaders said today. Read more |
| 08 September 2008 | Two million people successfully vaccinated in Abidjan following an urban yellow fever outbreak Abidjan/Brazzaville - The city of Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire can once again be considered safe from a Yellow Fever epidemic after the national Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF nongovernmental organizations and others in the Yellow Fever Partnership combined their forces to vaccinate over 2.2 million people in the Ivorian capital. Read more |
| 04 September 2008 | African health ministers to introduce new vaccine to prevent deadly meningitis epidemics Yaoundé — Health Ministers from countries of the African Meningitis Belt today committed themselves to introduce a highly promising candidate meningitis vaccine. The vaccine is designed to prevent periodic epidemics of the deadly disease in these countries. Read more |
| 01 August 2008 | First Shot of Pentavalent Vaccine for the Children of the Solomon Islands Support from the GAVI Alliance enables Introduction of Vaccine against Deadly Haemophilus influenzae type b (or Hib) and Four Other Diseases. For the first time in its history, the Solomon Islands began vaccinating its children today against Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and four other common diseases through the use of a 5-1 vaccine purchased with funding from the GAVI Alliance. Read more |
| 26 June 2008 | GAVI Alliance Commits Further Support for Vaccines Against Pneumonia and Meningitis A new blow against the major childhood killer pneumococcal disease was delivered yesterday when the GAVI Alliance Board confirmed its intent to provide US$1.3 billion for the purchase of pneumococcal vaccines for children in the developing world. Read more |
| 25 June 2008 | New Vaccine Strategy Prioritizes Deadly Diseases An alliance of the world’s top global health agencies, governments and private partners today approved a plan that will prioritize their support of new and underused vaccines to fight deadly disease in the developing world. Read more Other languages: Français | Italiano |
| 20 June 2008 | Successes In Global Immunisation Boost ProgressTowards MDGs
A revitalised global effort to improve immunisation programmes and strengthen health systems in the poorest countries is saving an increasing number of lives and making a significant impact towards achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals. Read more Other languages: Français |
| 23 May 2008 | Stronger health systems are key to battling disease in poorest countries In response to unprecedented demand from developing countries, the GAVI Alliance will increase its funding for health system strengthening to US$800 million. The flexible long-term funds will enable the world’s poorest countries to strengthen their healthcare systems to deliver vaccines and other health interventions more effectively. Read more Other languages: Français | Italiano |
| 24 April 2008 | Symposium Announces Great Strides in Childhood Immunisation Top vaccine experts and child advocates meeting in Barcelona today hailed dramatic new evidence of the role of immunisation in reducing deaths among children in the world’s poorest nations. “Each day, more and more children are being given life-saving vaccines. With higher immunisation rates, fewer of them are now dying of preventable infectious diseases,” said Graça Machel, President of the Foundation for Community Development (FDC) for Mozambique. Read more Other languages: Español |
| 09 April 2008 | Australia and Papua New Guinea launch efforts to crush deadly Hib disease in Pacific region New vaccine rollout through the GAVI Alliance expected to help extinguish childhood killer. Papua New Guinea will begin immunising children this month with a vaccine that promises to rid the nation of Haemophilus Influenzae type b, or Hib disease, one of the deadliest causes of meningitis and pneumonia. Read more |
| 12 March 2008 | Denmark supports immunisation efforts in the developing world The GAVI Alliance today thanked the Danish government for Denmark’s support to GAVI. During the meeting GAVI and the Danish Minister discussed issues related to vaccine deliveries in developing countries with weak health systems and also the role of GAVI in the international health architecture. Read more |
| 10 March 2008 | Deadly Disease Eliminated in Children under Five Years of Age in Uganda Hib meningitis has been virtually eliminated in young children in Uganda just five years after the country introduced Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine nationwide, according to an independent study. Read more Other languages: Français | Español | Italiano |
| 04 March 2008 | Japanese Investors Welcome the Launch of IFFIm’s Debut “Vaccine Bonds” Japanese investors enthusiastically welcomed the launch of the debut offering in the Japanese market of the International Finance Facility for Immunisation Company (“IFFIm”), a ZAR 1.7 billion (USD equivalent 223 million) two year uridashi issue. The funds raised by the issue will be used by the GAVI Alliance for health and immunisation programmes in 70 of the poorest countries around the world to save millions of lives. Read more |
| 27 February 2008 | “Vaccine bonds” offered in Japan will help save children’s lives in the developing world A "vaccine bond" expected to be offered in Japan next month aims to accelerate efforts to immunise children in the world’s poorest countries against deadly diseases, the first initiative of its kind in Japan to use the capital markets to raise funds for a specific development purpose. Read more |
| 15 February 2008 | Spain’s leading corporate foundation gives €4 million for child immunisation La Caixa Foundation (Fundacion Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona) has announced a €4 million donation to the GAVI Fund’s Immunise Every Child Campaign. The money will be used to help vaccinate children in the world’s poorest countries against life-threatening diseases. Read more Other languages: Español |
| 08 February 2008 | Bold Canadian investment of US $158 million helped prevent thousands of future deaths A bold and far-sighted investment in child survival by the Canadian government over the last five years has helped save hundreds of thousands of lives and paved the way for further reductions in child mortality globally. Read more |
| 23 January 2008 | 2.9 million future deaths prevented by GAVI immunisation programmes since 2000, new data show Targetted immunisation backed by innovative financing to pay for the introduction of new vaccines is key to reducing child mortality in the world’s poorest countries, the GAVI Alliance said today. Read more Other languages: Français |
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