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GAVI timeline: 10 years of saving lives

Click on the image to open our interactive timeline and trace the first decade of GAVI’s history in the making


When GAVI was publicly launched at the World Economic Forum in January 2000, immunisation rates in the world’s poorest countries were in decline and there was slow progress in introducing new vaccines against Hepatitis B and Yellow Fever.

Over the past 10 years, the Alliance has played a catalytic role in reversing these trends. Drawing on the specialized skills and knowledge of the leading public and private stakeholders in immunisation, from UNICEF and WHO to the Vaccine Industry and the World Bank, GAVI has:

  • Funded the delivery of life-saving vaccines to 250 million children
  • Averted five million future deaths
  • Helped push immunisation rates in poor counties to an unprecedented 80% average
  • Reduced the time lag between introducing new vaccines like Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and Hepatitis B, into poorer countries

Innovative

GAVI may be only 10 but our interactive timeline shows how the Alliance has grown up quickly to become one of the most innovative players in global health and development aid. History-making steps include:

  • The International Finance Facility for Immunisation [November 2006], which, unlike traditional aid packages, generates funding on a scale of billions rather millions – encouraging the world’s poorest countries to commit to long-term immunization programmes.



  • The marketing-shaping Advance Market Commitment [February 2007], designed to speed up manufacturer’s development of a new vaccine for poor countries against pneumococcal disease.

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  • Awarding two US$30 million grants [February 2003] to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and PATH to make epidemiological, financial and technical cases for accelerating the introduction of new vaccines against rotavirus and pneumococcal diseases in poorer countries.

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  • Encouraging developing countries to take ownership of their immunisation systems through performance-based awards [December 2003] and co-financing [May 2007].

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  • Offering Health System Strengthening support [July 2005], designed to help countries remove bottlenecks like poorly trained health workers in the delivery of immunisation and other health services.

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