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| 25 June 2009 | The great gift of immunization The News & Observer - When I was a child, a little boy in my neighborhood contracted polio and was placed in an iron lung. That event may well have led to my teenage determination to go into medicine. I also recall the children during my medical residency in the 1970s who died of Hib meningitis and streptococcal pneumonia -- for which we can now immunize. Read more |
| 17 June 2009 | Global-health stars converge on Seattle under cloak of secrecy Seattle Times - The glitterati of global health are gathering in Seattle — but if you're not on the guest list, you'd be hard-pressed to know. Read more |
| 19 May 2009 | INTERVIEW-U.N. hopes to tap new sources of money for aid Reuters - The United Nations is trying to harness donations from individuals for its aid programmes that stand to attract less government money because of the economic downturn, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday. Read more |
| 11 May 2009 | The Killer No One Suspects New York Times - On this Mother’s Day, let’s not only reach for flowers and dinners but also think of how we might make motherhood itself a bit happier. Read more |
| 05 May 2009 | The right fight Baltimore Sun - Like many 42-year-old fathers of two, Orin Levine was periodically distracted during our Sunday phone conversation by his playful daughters, Abby and Jessie. It's difficult to talk uninterrupted when your 6-year-old and 4-year-old are giggling and scurrying about, petitioning for your attentions. Read more |
| 27 April 2009 | Rwanda launches vaccination drive against pneumococcal disease in under 5s British Medical Journal - This week Rwanda launched a national drive to combat pneumococcal disease, the leading vaccine preventable killer of children under 5 worldwide. The drive is thought to be one of the developing world’s first national immunisation programmes against a disease that causes life threatening illnesses, such as pneumonia, meningitis, and sepsis, and might have a substantial effect on mortality in children under 5. Read more |
| 18 April 2009 | GAVI prepares for meningitis outbreak, stockpiles vaccine
Africa Science News - The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, is fast-tracking a $55 million contribution to establish a stockpile of vaccines to save lives and contain the spread of meningitis across Africa. Read more |
| 01 April 2009 | Better healthcare will require more collaboration Financial Times (Blog) - The GAVI Alliance for vaccinations and the International Business Leaders Forum held a one-day conference in London this week that symbolised the shadow the financial crisis has cast over global health - and offered a glimmer of optimism.”About health - let’s show we mean business” highlighted the pressures of the downturn, which will almost certainly result in slowed progress in tackling illness and death in the developing world after several years of considerable gains. Read more |
| 31 March 2009 | UNICEF and GAVI provide polio immunization to Sierra Leone UNICEF - On the dusty streets of a Freetown suburb, a crowd slowly shuffles along to find work. There is silence. Everyone here struggles to keep going. Poverty is the norm. Read more |
| 27 March 2009 | Meningitis kills over 1,100 West Africans New York Times - One third of the world's stockpiled meningitis vaccine doses have been dispatched to West Africa where an outbreak has killed more than 1,100 people since January, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday. Read more |
| 25 March 2009 | Investing in a better future Gulf Times - Government bonds are generally attractive to the layman investor as they are relatively safe. The saver can profit while not fretting over the markets. Read more |
| 25 March 2009 | Meningococcal disease: Situation in the African meningitis belt WHO - During the first 11 weeks of 2009 (January 1- March 15), a total of 24 868 suspected cases, including 1 513 deaths (1), have been reported to WHO by countries of the meningitis belt. More than 85% of the cases have occurred in one epidemic foci, encompassing Northern Nigeria and Niger (see below) and are characterized by the predominance of Neisseria meningitidis (Nm) serogroup A. Read more |
| 24 March 2009 | Vaccine investments raise millions to save children's lives Lancet - In March, HSBC, a leading UK bank, offered innovative vaccine-themed investments to individuals and institutional investors in the UK, to provide additional funding to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) for its childhood immunisation programme. Read more |
| 20 March 2009 | Children's futures: Keeping kids - and your money - healthy - Feature DPA - Government bonds are generally attractive to the layman investor as they are relatively safe. The saver can profit while not fretting over the markets. An initiative which has been getting off the ground in the past two years is trying to help those investors sleep even easier, knowing their money will go to the developing world to immunize children. Read more |
| 19 March 2009 | Gambia to introduce new vaccines Africa News - Two new pneumonia vaccines, Penta and PCV-7, for children under five are to be introduced in April and June this year as part of activities of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) of the Department of State for Health in Gambia. The move is aimed at helping to reduce pneumonia in that country. Read more |
| 19 March 2009 | Poor Management of Childcare This Day - Paediatricians recently met to discuss strategies for improving child health in the 21st century. One of the most pressing issues they discussed was the elimination of childhood pneumonia, a major killer of Nigerian children. They also appealed to government to make HIB vaccine already in use in most African countries a top priority, Steve Dada writes Read more |
| 19 March 2009 | INVESTMENT: Vaccine values Money Marketing - Last month, HSBC launched an innovative product that is a combination of financial investment and charity. Read more |
| 19 March 2009 | Ethical funds could lure world weary investors defaqto.com - If you've given up on traditional investment because of unremittingly poor returns, perhaps it's time to consider something completely different. Read more |
| 18 March 2009 | Rwanda: Country Receives U.S.$ 32 Million Worth Pneumonia Vaccines The New Times - Rwanda has received a consignment of Prevnar Pneumococcal Vaccine worth about US$32 million (Approx. Rwf 18bn). The vaccine will be used to immunise over 1.3 million children in the country against pneumonia and other pneumococcal diseases like Meningitis. Read more | AllAfrica |
| 18 March 2009 | Country Receives U.S.$ 32 Million Worth Pneumonia Vaccines Pharmacy Choice/New Times - Rwanda has received a consignment of Prevnar Pneumococcal Vaccine worth about US$32 million (Approx. Rwf 18bn). The vaccine will be used to immunise over 1.3 million children in the country against pneumonia and other pneumococcal diseases like Meningitis. Read more | Also at Newstin |
| 17 March 2009 | Pneumococcal Disease Poses Highest Risk In Africa South Africa is first African country to introduce vaccine The Statesman - Two new studies from the Pneumococcal Awareness Council of Experts highlight the increased risk for children in Africa of contracting pneumococcal disease and suffering its devastating consequences. Read more |
| 17 March 2009 | Early Day Motion: DEVELOPING WORLD VACCINES UK government - That this House recognises the benefits of encouraging vaccination in developing countries; congratulates the GAVI Alliance and HSBC for the launch of the Vaccine Investment ISA, an innovative new scheme designed to enable investors to participate in a sustainable and ethical investment opportunity that will fund vaccines for children in the developing world; supports the provision that the funds raised through this initiative will go to the International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm) which will enable the GAVI Alliance to fund vaccines and immunisation programmes in developing nations; congratulates the World Bank and other key stakeholders for their involvement; further congratulates the Government on its leadership in developing world health issues; and calls on the Government to continue its strong support of innovative funding mechanisms such as the IFFIm and the pneumococcal disease Advance Market Commitment, which aims to speed the research and development of life-saving vaccines to prevent pneumococcal disease which kills up to one million children each year, 90 per cent. of whom are from the developing world. Read more |
| 16 March 2009 | End of meningitis in Africa? iAfrica - A new mass vaccination campaign to be rolled out across West Africa this year promises to eliminate the deadly brain disease meningitis in Africa, according to the UN World Health Organisation (WHO). Read more |
| 14 March 2009 | Downturn could kill 400,000 children, warns Margaret Chan The Times (UK) - Thousands of women and children are dying as a direct consequence of the current economic crisis which is already derailing efforts to improve maternal care and cut child death rates, the head of the World Health Organization has warned. Read more |
| 10 March 2009 | Saving lives The Lancet - HSBC has launched a Vaccine Investment ISA that will give investors the opportunity to help vaccination programmes in developing countries. Through the International Finance Facility for Immunisation and the GAVI Alliance, every £1000 invested will help immunise more than 130 children against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis B, and Haemophilus influenzae type b. Read more |
| 09 March 2009 | The Isa that can help save children's lives This is Money (The Daily Mail) - A new ethical investment Isa will offer the opportunity to make money and save lives in poor countries. Investing correspondent Philip Scott visited Sierra Leone to find out more Read more |
| 09 March 2009 | Innovative New ISA Lets Investors Save Lives Sky News - The credit crisis is putting millions of lives at risk as funding for humanitarian aid dries up. But an innovative new ISA is letting investors help - without making a direct donation. Read more |
| 09 March 2009 | Aid group, bank sell 'vaccine bonds' World Radio Switzerland - The Swiss-based Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunisation (GAVI) wants investors to buy "vaccine bonds." Banking-giant HSBC is partnering with the group to sell bonds to British investors that return more than 16-percent over a 5 year period. Read more |
| 09 March 2009 | GLOBAL: Donor-backed UK bonds to fund vaccines IRIN - UK banks are proposing to investors donor-backed bonds to raise money for vaccines in developing countries, according to the UK non-profit International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFim). Read more |
| 09 March 2009 | Innovative New ISA Lets Investors Save Lives Sky News/Yahoo UK - The credit crisis is putting millions of lives at risk as funding for humanitarian aid dries up. But an innovative new ISA is letting investors help - without making a direct donation. Read more |
| 07 March 2009 | How your savings can inject hope in the poorest places The Guardian - Geneva-based Gavi, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, is masterminding the life-saving innoculations in Sierra Leone -- and in a further 70 poor countries (defined as having an annual income of less than $1,000 a head), of which the majority are in Africa. Gavi was set up in 2000 as a public-private partnership with the sole aim of increasing immunisation rates. Its members include donors, developing countries, the World Health Organisation, the World Bank, Unicef, the Gates Foundation and vaccine manufacturers. Gavi says its activities have prevented more than 3.4m premature deaths since 2000. Read more |
| 07 March 2009 | Spotlight: HSBC's Vaccine ISA The Independent - Another week, another curious ISA offering with HSBC's launch of a not-for-profit Vaccine Investment ISA. The idea is a spin-off from the 2000 G8 summit. HSBC is collaborating with the World Bank to provide funding for the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, which supports vaccination programmes in 70 developing countries around the world. But this isn't a donation. Read more |
| 07 March 2009 | Child Vaccination ISA from HSBC Ekklesia - HSBC has launched a pioneering new ethical investment ISA, a child vaccination ISA, which offers the opportunity to make money and at the same time help vaccinate children and save lives in the poorest countries of the world. Read more |
| 06 March 2009 | New ISA to help child vaccination Press Association - A new ISA is being launched which will enable savers to help vaccinate children in some of the world's poorest countries, it has been announced. Read more |
| 06 March 2009 | HSBC Isa buys vaccinations Teletext - A new Isa is being launched by HSBC to enable savers to help vaccinate children in developing countries. Read more |
| 05 March 2009 | HSBC mulls launch of further 'front-loaded' Isas Financial Times Adviser - HSBC is considering launching further UK retail targeted 'front-loaded' Isas, which allow savers to get a competitive return on their funds whilst helping charities. Read more |
| 05 March 2009 | Investing in vaccines for children promises healthy returns Philanthropy UK - A new Vaccine Investment ISA aims to raise £50m to help vaccinate children in poor countries and offer investors in the UK a strong financial return. Read more |
| 05 March 2009 | Life saving ISA to fund developing world vaccinations My Finances.co.uk - Savers who still have not used their ISA allowance can now get a 16.2 per cent return while helping to save lives Read more |
| 05 March 2009 | New ISA to help child vaccination- footage from Sierra Leone and Allan Gillespie Channel 4 - Video Read more |
| 04 March 2009 | Vaccine Isa launched for retail investors Trustnet - IFFIM aims to raise £50m to vaccinate children in the world's poorest countries through the issuance of "vaccine bonds" to retail investors. Read more |
| 04 March 2009 | New ISA to help child vaccination Press Association/Channel 4 - A new ISA is being launched which will enable savers to help vaccinate children in some of the world's poorest countries, it has been announced. Read more |
| 03 March 2009 | SOUTH AFRICA: New vaccine could save thousands of children IRIN - South Africa is set to become the first country in Africa to provide its children with a life-saving vaccine that experts say could prevent the deaths of an estimated 5.4 million children globally in the next two decades. Read more | IRIN | All Africa |
| 03 March 2009 | South African meeting highlights of devastation of Pneumococcal disease Africa Science News - Two new studies released today at the ongoing Sabin Vaccine Institute's fourth regional Pneumococcal symposium in Johannesburg, South Africa highlight the increased risk for children in Africa of contracting pneumococcal diseases and suffering its devastating consequences. Read more |
| 02 March 2009 | Aid injection by ethical ISA Financial Times - HSBC is to launch a groundbreaking ethical investment product for British savers to support vaccination programmes in the developing world. Read more |
| 02 March 2009 | Bharat Bio launches first indigenous single-shot against 5 diseases Business Standard - Bharat Biotech International Limited, a Hyderabad-based manufacturer of vaccines and biotherapeutics, on Monday launched COMVAC5, a single-shot pentavalent combination vaccine which contains the first indigenously developed and manufactured haemophilus influenza type-b (Hib) vaccine in India and the only Hepatitis B vaccine in the world to be manufactured without the use of cesium chloride. Read more |
| 26 February 2009 | Richard Smith on why the private sector is needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals BMJ - On Monday I was at a meeting with Bill Clinton and Ban Ki-moon, illustrating my global significance. I’d better make clear, however, that 500 other people were also present, and neither Bill nor Ban would have had any idea that I was there. Read more |
| 20 February 2009 | UNICEF, WHO, GAVI Alliance, World Bank, governments and private sector: global immunization meeting in NY this week. Maxims News - United Nations agencies and their partners in the global fight against vaccine-preventable diseases: UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the GAVI Alliance along with the World Bank, developing and industrialized countries' governments and the private sector -- gathered this week for a three-day conference in New York City for the fourth annual Global Immunization Meeting that focused on the progress and future challenges of global immunization. Read more |
| 11 February 2009 | In brief: Human papillomavirus vaccine for developing world BMJ - The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization will make the human papillomavirus vaccine against cervical cancer available to girls in developing nations if it can close a funding gap of $4bn (£2.7bn; {euro}3.1bn). Read more |
| 07 February 2009 | Performance-based payment: some reflections on the discourse, evidence and unanswered questions Health Policy and Planning - Performance-based payment (PBP) is increasingly advocated as a way to improve the performance of health systems in low-income countries. This study conducted a systematic review of the current literature on this topic and found that while it is a popular term, there was little consensus about the meaning or the use of the concept of PBP. Significant weaknesses in the current evidence base on the success of PBP initiatives were also found. Read more |
| 06 February 2009 | Vaccine bonds raise $429 mln in Japan retail offer Reuters - Top-rated bonds to fund vaccines for children in poor countries will raise the equivalent of $429 million in an offering to Japanese retail investors, more than expected, the organisers said. Read more |
| 06 February 2009 | Health Ministry seeks to eliminate neonatal tetanus Saba - Public Health and the population Ministry is currently preparing to carry out vaccination campaigns for the elimination of neonatal tetanus, targeting approximately 2200000 women in 2009. Read more | Also at |
| 05 February 2009 | Nobel Prize winner, GAVI call for equal access to HPV vaccine African Science News - Girls in developing countries deserve the same access to a life-saving vaccine against cervical cancer as girls in richer nations, said the GAVI Alliance on World Cancer Day. Read more |
| 05 February 2009 | Pathway Medical Gets Traction, Ekos Raises $12.5M, ZymoGenetics Sales Boss Departs, & More Seattle-Area Life Sciences News Xconomy - We took an in-depth look at PATH, the hard-driving nonprofit organization that aims to improve the health of poor people around the world. The Seattle-based group has pulled in $1.3 billion in funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, making it the second-largest recipient of Gates grants in the world, behind the GAVI Alliance. In an extensive interview, CEO Chris Elias explained what has made PATH so successful. Read more |
| 04 February 2009 | PATH, Fueled by Bill Gates' Fortune, Builds Global Health Hothouse in Seattle Xconomy - Bill and Melinda Gates don't give their money away to just anybody who comes along with an impressive resume and a good cause. So why has the world's largest charitable foundation seen fit to give $1.3 billion of its fortune to a little-known Seattle-based nonprofit called PATH? Read more |
| 30 January 2009 | An Inoculation for Low Yields Wall Street Journal - Japanese investors who hope to make money through good deeds will soon have a choice of "vaccine bonds" issued in three currencies, with the proceeds going to immunize children in the developing world. Read more |
| 30 January 2009 | 'Vaccine bonds' offer social payoff Japan Times - A unique bond that provides investors with both financial returns and the personal satisfaction of helping children in poor countries through immunization will tap the Japanese market again next month. Read more |
| 28 January 2009 | Action for Global Health UK Policy Conference held in London Action for Global Health - Action for Global Health UK partners held their second annual policy conference, ‘From Accra to Doha: What is the health sector doing to provide more and better aid’, at the Royal Society, London on 26 January 2009. Read more |
| 27 January 2009 | WEST AFRICA: Yellow fever outbreaks on the rise IRIN - As international agencies respond to the emergence of the deadly yellow fever virus in Guinea, experts say they are increasingly concerned about a rise in outbreaks across Africa. Read more |
| 26 January 2009 | Bill Gates raises 2009 charity spending as endowment sinks Bloomberg - The wrecked economy last year took a 20 percent bite from the $35.1 billion endowment of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Still, the Microsoft Corp. founder said he'll increase his group's charitable spending this year. Read more |
| 26 January 2009 | Forgotten agenda: health for wealth Financial Times - As international decisionmakers gather in Davos to discuss the poor health of the global economy, they will also be considering the dangers of the downturn on health. Read more |
| 26 January 2009 | WEST AFRICA: Yellow fever outbreaks on the rise IRIN/BlackUK - As international agencies respond to the emergence of the deadly yellow fever virus in Guinea, experts say they are increasingly concerned about a rise in outbreaks across Africa. Read more |
| 25 January 2009 | Vaccine bonds wooing Japanese investors despite credit crisis Kyodo News - Alan Gillespie (R), chair of the International Finance Facility for Immunisation Company (IFFIm), and Alice Albright, chief financial officer of the GAVI Alliance, are seen during an interview with Kyodo News held at the offices of the Daiwa Securities Group Inc. in Tokyo on Jan. 16. (Kyodo) Read more |
| 24 January 2009 | Bill Gates's Next Big Thing New York Times - Here's a paradox: In these brutal economic times, one of the leading advocates for the world's poorest people is one of the richest. Read more |
| 23 January 2009 | Bill Gates on the future of aid
The Economist - The financial crisis may have an impact on aid, but individuals can be better risk takers than their governments Read more |
| 22 January 2009 | Pediatricians Worried over Childhood Diseases This Day - As the dust raised by adulterated Dietyclene Glycol used in the production of a paracetamol ‘My Pikin’ teething mixture leading to the death of no fewer than 51 children across the country is yet to settle, Paediatric Association of Nigeria has vowed to tackle some of the childhood diseases that can aggravate deaths of children. Read more |
| 21 January 2009 | 'Vaccine bonds' offer ethical investment and health for children Philanthropy UK - Top-rated ‘vaccine bonds’ that aim to raise over $250m to help vaccinate children in poor countries will go on sale in Japan in February. Read more |
| 21 January 2009 | To train 3162 health professionals and to establish 11 Health Sub-centers and 1 Mobile health center in rural Afghanistan, MoPH signs contracts with 2 non-governmental organizations (1 national and 1 International) Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan - Ministry of Public Health of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan signs contracts to expand the delivery of Basic Package of Health Services and to train 3162 healh professional, with 2 non-governmental organizations including 1 national and 1 international. MoPH of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan aims to scale up coverage of health services with more trained and skilled health care providers in 13 provinces of the country. In the past 18 months, MoPH has established 300 Health sub-centers all over the country. Establishment of 300 health sub-centers, supported by the World Bank, USAID, EC and GAVI Alliance, has ensured access of more than 1.5 million people to the Basic Package of Health Services in all provinces. Read more |
| 20 January 2009 | Pneumonia is Nigeria’s silent child killer The Vanguard - Nigeria is the economic and political powerhouse of West Africa. It is Africa’s most populous nation and one of the wealthiest countries on the continent. Despite this, Nigeria has one of the highest child mortality rates in Africa. Currently, one out of every five Nigerian children dies before their fifth birthday. And what disease is responsible for more deaths than any other? Childhood pneumonia. Read more |
| 20 January 2009 | Second Gavi issue to ‘frontload’ aid Financial Times - The Gavi Alliance, a non-profit organisation that raises money to immunise children in poor countries, has found that tapping capital markets is an efficient way to “frontload” donations and is revisiting the market for the second time in a year after piquing the interest of Japanese investors. Read more |
| 15 January 2009 | PAKISTAN: New vaccine aims to combat pneumonia deaths IRIN - Health officials are hoping the introduction of a new vaccine against Hib, a major and largely under-reported cause of pneumonia and bacterial meningitis, can help bring down the rate of infection and death. Read more |
| 15 January 2009 | Congo boosts Extended Programme on Immunization Pana - Congo is boosting its national disease prevention policy with the introduction of Pentavalent in the Extended Programme on Immunzation (EPI) and the official launch of the new vaccine Wednesday in Ignie, 45 km north of Brazzaville. Read more |
| 14 January 2009 | New vaccine to protect children from five killer diseases The Daily Star - Bangladesh for the first time introduces a new combination vaccine that will protect its children against five killer diseases in one injection, including the deadly bacterium Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib). Read more |
| 14 January 2009 | Bangladesh introduces new vaccine to prevent severe forms of child pneumonia and meningitis GAVI/EurekAlert - Today, Bangladesh introduces a new combination vaccine that will protect its children against five killer diseases in one injection, including, for the first time, the deadly bacterium Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) that causes some severe forms of pneumonia and meningitis. In a ceremony in Khulna District, southwest of the capital Dhaka, the Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Professor A.F.M. Ruhul Haque, along with other health officials and representatives of UN agencies and development partners will administer the first shots of the combination vaccine to Bangladeshi children. Read more |
| 14 January 2009 | UN health agency backs mass yellow fever vaccination campaign in Guinea UN New Centre - A large-scale yellow fever vaccination campaign has been slated for later this month in Guinea after the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed two men had contracted the deadly disease in the West African nation. Read more | also here | and here |
| 14 January 2009 | Boosting Access to Medicine Policy Innovations - The Indonesian government aggravated the World Health Organization (WHO) three years ago by refusing to hand over samples of the deadly H5N1 "bird flu" virus. The Indonesians argued that the samples would be used to produce medicines priced beyond the means of its poorer citizens. Jakarta's stance raised concerns that countries with confirmed cases of SARS might abstain in a similar fashion. Read more |
| 13 January 2009 | A profitable view of philanthropy Financial Times - The sun is setting over Seattle, but more than two hours into an interview, Bill Gates shows no sign of either running out of things to say or a desire to stop talking as he discusses the philanthropic foundation that now takes up most of his time. Read more |
| 12 January 2009 | French Agency AMP Appoints Dr Kamel Senouci As Director Of SIVAC Initiative PR Newswire - The French agency Agence de Médecine Préventive (AMP) announced the appointment of Dr. Kamel Senouci as Program Director for the SIVAC (Supporting Independent Immunization and Vaccine Advisory Committees) initiative. This program aims at contributing to the development of national immunization technical advisory groups in six resource poor countries in Africa and six in Asia. Read more |
| 07 January 2009 | Progress in Introduction of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine--Worldwide, 2000-2008 JAMA - Pneumococcal disease is a leading cause of childhood morbidity and mortality globally, causing an estimated 0.7-1.0 million deaths annually among children aged <5 years.1 A pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) that includes seven pneumococcal serotypes (PCV7) first became available in 2000. Studies in the United States have demonstrated that introduction of universal vaccination with PCV7 resulted in a 77% decrease in invasive pneumococcal disease among children aged <5 years and a 39% decrease in hospital admissions for pneumonia among children aged <2 years. Read more |