2013

Thousands of health experts, Member State delegations and international organisations will gather in Geneva from 20-28 May for the WHO’s 66th World Health Assembly. In this preview, we highlight topics on the agenda that will help shape the future of global immunisation.

‘They are all my children,’ says one of four pioneers, all of whom remain devoted to clinic in Carrefour after 20 years

A new GAVI study published in Vaccine predicts positive long-term impact of vaccines on mortality.

The health sector has led the development success of the MDG era and created an unprecedented opportunity to achieve even more after 2015

true 340 NMMU honorary doctorates (from left) Dr Seth Berkley, Dr Sylvia Earle and John Kani<br/>Photo credit: Leonette Bower 340 float_right Geneva, 17 April 2013 – GAVI CEO Dr Seth Berkley was today awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Universi

The health sector has led the development success of the MDG era and created an unprecedented opportunity to achieve even more after 2015

Scientists, doctors, experts from 75 countries highlight achievability of polio eradication

Seven of the world’s leading health and development agencies call for the High Level Panel of the post-2015 development agenda to ensure that health remains central to advance global prosperity in the post-2015 era.

GAVI Alliance Special Representative, Alex Palacios, this week testified on Capitol Hill to request that the United States Government contribute US$ 175 million to GAVI for Fiscal Year 2014 and that Congress appropriate US$ 750 million for maternal and child health programmes administered by USAID.

Comic Relief, the hugely popular UK charity, pulls out all the stops for its biannual Red Nose Day fundraising campaign today, bringing substantial visibility and support for child immunisation in the developing world.

Rwanda is the first country in Africa to introduce the conjugate measles and rubella vaccine with support from the GAVI Alliance. When this immunisation campaign was launched, Agnès Binagwaho, Minister of Health of Rwanda, answered GAVI’s questions.

This week, the global health leadership convened in Botswana with a “defining purpose” to set the way forward for health in the post-2015 development agenda.

The GAVI Alliance presented the Government of India with a special award in recognition of its work towards eradicating polio.

GAVI convenes 25 global experts to agree on a research programme into the wider value of vaccines.