2012

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).

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

20-page supplement on vaccines, immunisation and GAVI.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

GAVI CEO Dr Seth Berkley delivers an in-depth speech outlining the crucial role Australian funding will play in saving lives in the developing world.

President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron reaffirmed their mutual commitment to improving the lives of the world’s poorest people through the U.S.-UK Partnership for Global Development.

The Ghana Health Service is gearing up for an extraordinary joint introduction of pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines.

Comic Relief, the hugely popular UK charity, is gearing up for a marathon of events over the next week as part of its Sport Relief fundraising campaign, with a portion of the proceeds going toward child immunisation through the GAVI Alliance.

High-level meeting rounds-off Dr. Seth Berkley’s successful visit to Maputo.

Seth Berkley speech underlines broader consequences of vaccination for economic development.

Not many scientists live to see vaccine development from basic science all the way through to clinical trials and country introductions, says Professor Ian Frazer, inventor of a vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV), the infection that causes cervical cancer.

Interview with Muhammad Sani Adamu, Head of Accelerated Disease Control in Nigeria’s National Primary Health Care Development Agency, who played a key role in rolling out the new vaccine against meningitis A, MenAfriVac, to Nigeria’s northern states.

Interview with GAVI Alliance Board Chairman Dagfinn Høybråten on Voice of America.

GAVI CEO visits Genome Valley, Indian pharmaceutical industry’s equivalent of Silicon Valley, to receive special award.

Information about how vaccines against hepatitis B and human papillomavirus (HPV) help to protect against liver and cervical cancers.

ARK launches first comprehensive anti-diarrhoea programme in Zambia.