GAVI latest newshttp://www.gavialliance.org The GAVI Alliance welcomes the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) report and is now working with the independent GAVI data task team, established earlier this year, to take forward and unravel its implications. The head of IHME, Dr. Chris Murray, has been invited to join the task team. http://www.gavialliance.org/media_centre/statements/2008_12_15_ISS_statement.php Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100 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. http://www.gavialliance.org/media_centre/press_releases/Good_data_and_ISS.php Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100 A contribution of US $11 million from the GAVI Alliance has enabled the government of Burkina Faso to initiate a preventive immunisation campaign against yellow fever for 7.9 million people in high risk zones of the country. http://www.gavialliance.org/media_centre/press_releases/BURKINA_FASO_VACCINATES_7_9_MILLION.php Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100 To further protect millions of children in the developing world against life-threatening diseases, the Government of Germany has committed an additional four million Euros to the GAVI Alliance. http://www.gavialliance.org/media_centre/press_releases/GERMANY_TO_FURTHER_SUPPORT.php Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Alliance commits US$ 134 million to the three killer diseases - rotavirus, pneumococcal and Hib - but warns of funding challenges to introduce new support against cervical cancer, typhoid, Japanese encephalitis and rubella. http://www.gavialliance.org/media_centre/press_releases/6_6_million_children_against_3_killer_diseases.php Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100 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. http://www.gavialliance.org/media_centre/statements/2008_10_30_Board_MaryRobinson.php Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100 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). http://www.gavialliance.org/media_centre/press_releases/New_GAVI_numbers.php Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100 The GAVI Alliance has welcomed a new report launched 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. http://www.gavialliance.org/media_centre/statements/2008_10_16_APPG_report.php Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0200 Meeting in New York, Ethiopia’s Minister of Health and the heads of four leading global health organisations, the GAVI Alliance, UNAIDS, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and UNICEF agreed significant progress towards reducing child and maternal mortality is being made. http://www.gavialliance.org/media_centre/press_releases/2008_09_24_WHO_pr_MDGs.php Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0200 On June 25, the GAVI Alliance launched its five-year vaccine strategy, announcing plans to focus attention on seven key diseases: cervical cancer, cholera, Japanese encephalitis, meningitis A, rabies, rubella, and typhoid. http://www.gavialliance.org/media_centre/news/2008_09_13_Lancet_Primary_health_care.php Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0200 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. http://www.gavialliance.org/media_centre/press_releases/2008_08_01_en_pr_pentavalent.php Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0200