Statements

Gender target achieved and executive committee process to be streamlined.

GAVI expresses appreciation to Comic Relief for a new grant and raising visibility for immunisation.

Statement by GAVI Alliance CEO, Seth Berkley M.D. [日本語]

The GAVI Alliance expresses its deep appreciation to the US government for the increase in funding proposed in President Obama’s fiscal year 2013 budget request to Congress on 13 February.

Dagfinn Høybråten, Chair of the GAVI Board, thanks France for their support to GAVI. [Français]

Statement by GAVI CEO, Dr Seth Berkley, congratulating Professor Michel Kazatchkine on an extraordinary decade of involvement with The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.

Following separate investigations into the misuse of GAVI funding in Cameroon and Niger, both Ministries of Health have cooperated fully and confirmed their commitment to take all necessary measures, including the reimbursement of misused funds. [Français]

Statement by GAVI Alliance CEO, Seth Berkley MD on India's success in staying free of polio for a year and its renewed commitment to immunisation.

GAVI Alliance expresses its deep appreciation for an increase in funding secured in the Fiscal Year 2012 omnibus spending bill passed by the US Congress on 17 December.

CEO Seth Berkley says that GAVI stands ready to play its role in achieving a world with zero new HIV infections and zero AID-s related deaths.

Rotavirus-related diarrhoea kills mostly in developing countries, but vaccine roll outs have begun.

Feared for centuries because of the death and paralysis it causes, polio is finally on the edge of eradication.

The Malian Government has fully reimbursed GAVI the amount of US$ 563,000 that was misused during the period 2008-2010.

New results published today in the New England Journal of Medicine about a large-scale Phase III trial conducted in seven African countries of the malaria vaccine candidate RTS,S deserve a hearty round of applause.

The GAVI Alliance congratulates Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on winning the Nobel Peace Prize. [Français]

On Tuesday 27 September, the GAVI Alliance will make a major announcement about vaccines to protect children in Africa and other developing countries against diarrhoea and pneumonia.

UN Inter-agency report says prioritisation needed on tackling major killers of children such as pneumonia and diarrhoea

GAVI Alliance partners do not expect any major disruption in 2011 to supplies of pentavalent vaccines following today’s announcement by the World Health Organization (WHO) that it has delisted “Easyfive,” a pentavalent vaccine produced by Panacea Biotec.

In keeping with GAVI s policy on transparency in the oversight of cash-based programmes, its Deputy CEO recently updated the GAVI Board on the status of cash-based programmes in Zambia.

Every year, 600,000 people die from hepatitis B-related causes, the most serious type of viral hepatitis and a major cause of liver cancer. [Deutsch] [Français]

GAVI Alliance supports African introduction of rotavirus vaccines against the leading cause of severe infant diarrhoea.

Review commends GAVI’s critical work in providing life saving vaccines to children in the poorest countries, and for offering Australia a “proven, respected and innovative multilateral mechanism for further developing its interest in supporting countries in Africa, while at the same time minimizing the risk of aid fragmentation.”

The GAVI Alliance applauds J.P. Morgan for its leadership and generosity in donating 1.5 million to a new Matching Fund for Immunisation.

Developing nations are making increasing financial commitments to the cost of childhood immunisation, a key foundation for social and economic development, the GAVI Alliance said ahead of a pledging conference on 13 June. [Français] [Deutsch]

An investigation by the GAVI Alliance has concluded that US$ 563,000 was misused in two of its cash-based programmes in Mali. [Français]