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23 May 2012

Dr Seth Berkley and Dr Anthony Fauci, NIAID May 2012

Seth Berkley highlights 19 million children missing out on vaccines

GAVI CEO's speech to ational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases focuses on need for equity in vaccine coverage.

23 May 2012

G8 graphic

G8 report praises GAVI and catalytic use of innovative financing

Accountability report singles out GAVI for its 'unified focus', IFFIm as a 'catalytic success story' and and the AMC as a 'game-changer'.

22 May 2012

Dr Coll Seck, Senegal Health Minister

Senegal Health Minister highlights key role of immunisation

Vaccines play key role in Senegal's dramatic reduction in child mortality.

22 May 2012

Dr Anthony Fauci, Director NIAID

Fauci: forging closer ties with GAVI

Director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases talks about the relationship between the National Institute of Health and GAVI.

21 May 2012

Dr Christopher Elias, President of the BMGF’s Global Development Program

Immunisation eyes future with innovation

Dr.Chris Elias, President of the BMGF’s Global Development Program, discusses the role of innovation in delivering vaccines to the hard-to-reach.

21 May 2012

Margaret Chan WHA 2012

Chinese vaccine production to revolutionise the market

Dr Margaret Chan highlights China's potential for increased vaccine production at lower prices following WHO approval of national vaccine regulator.

16 May 2012

World Health Assembly

World Health Assembly to welcome as many as 3,000 participants

Ministers, experts, and other delegates to discuss Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP), GAVI progress, non-communicable diseases, Millennium Development Goals, and other issues.

10 May 2012

Nilgun Myanmar 2

Diary of a vaccine monitor

As a programme officer with the GAVI Alliance, Nilgun Aydogan is responsible not only for helping south Asian countries apply for funding to introduce life-saving vaccines but also for monitoring the effectiveness of their immunisation programmes.

04 May 2012

The Ghanaian Vaccine Panel

Praise from Washington for Ghana vaccine rollout

Ghanaian Immunization Panel on Thursday night addressed Ghana’s successful rollout of two vaccines simultaneously last week.

02 May 2012

Sanjana Shrestha/Save the Children

The Global Action Report on Preterm Birth

New global report: 15 million babies born too soon, over 1 million die each year.

30 April 2012

Ghana field visit

LDS Church rallies support for historic vaccine rollouts in Ghana

Volunteers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints rallied support for the introduction of pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines at the same time.

24 April 2012

Myanmar measles vaccinations

Global partners launch new plan to control and eliminate measles and rubella

Partners leading efforts to control measles announce a new global strategy aimed at reducing measles deaths and congenital rubella syndrome to zero (Joint American Red Cross/CDC/UN Foundation/UNICEF/ WHO press release).

24 April 2012

5th Birthday Campaign

USAID’s Shah calls for zero preventable deaths

Launching the “Every Child Deserves a Fifth Birthday” social media campaign in Washington,  the head of the United States Agency for International Development gives a sneak peek of his vision for a world with zero child deaths from preventable diseases.

23 April 2012

School children celebrate WIW

Haiti celebrates post-earthquake vaccine success story

Just two years after a catastrophic earthquake shattered its public health system, Haiti has marked the launch of World Immunization Week by launching a nationwide vaccination campaign.

23 April 2012

Amie Batson

Q and A with Amie Batson, USAID health leader

Interview with GAVI Board member and the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Global Health at the US Agency for International Development.

20 April 2012

5th Birthday Campaign

USAID launches Every Child Deserves a 5th Birthday campaign

Wanted: photos from your fifth birthday, or a photo of you or your kids at age five. Social media campaign will culminate in Child Survival: Call to Action meeting in June.

20 April 2012

Ghana vaccine heroes

Ghana's vaccine heroes make public health history

From health workers to paediatricians, 100s of Ghanians have played a frontline role in making their country the first in Africa to simultaneously introduce pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines. Six of Ghana’s vaccine heroes describe what it takes to rewrite public health history.

17 April 2012

Nigeria Vaccine Summit

IVAC identifies solutions to Nigeria childhood mortality crisis

A study released today by the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has identified the most feasible and impactful solutions for Nigeria’s immunisation programme that could offer the best hope yet for scaling up vaccine access to the nation’s most rural areas and taking aim at the country’s precipitous number of child deaths.

16 April 2012

The Parliament

European Parliament Magazine highlights immunisation

20-page supplement on vaccines, immunisation and GAVI.

13 April 2012

Atletico Madrid

Atletico Madrid partners with “la Caixa” to support GAVI programmes

Funds raised from fans, partners under GAVI Matching Fund will be doubled.


13 April 2012

HRH Vietnam

GAVI Board achieves goal on gender

With women representing 40 percent of the GAVI Board, GAVI sets the standard on gender policy in international organisations.

04 April 2012

Uganda-Health-Minister-Christine-Ondoa

International parliamentarians commit to immunisation

A panel of democratically-elected representatives from around the world has committed to advocating for vaccines and immunisation, recognising that the technology is cost-effective in reducing maternal and child mortality.

30 March 2012

Comic relief

Comic Relief increases its grant to GAVI

Total of £5 million thanks to Sport Relief and Gates Foundation.

30 March 2012

Ghana official

Why Ghana applied to introduce two vaccines

Health official and EPI reveal why Ghana took the unprecedented decision to introduce pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines simultaneously.

28 March 2012

Myanmar MSD

Myanmar measles campaign, dress rehearsal for measles 2nd dose and pentavalent rollouts

Nationwide catch-up campaign prepares ground for introduction of new life-saving vaccines in 2012.

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