Press releases
| 24 June 2009 | Japanese retail investors continue to show strong support for vaccine bonds Vaccine bonds offered to Japanese retail investors raise USD 130 million equivalent to help pay for health and immunisation programmes in some of the world’s poorest countries. Read more |
| 23 June 2009 | GAVI recognised as international institution The GAVI Alliance, hosted by UNICEF since it was launched in 2000, becomes an independent international institution – the first organisation to receive such recognition under the new Swiss Host State Act. Read more Other languages: Deutsch | Français | Italiano |
| 12 June 2009 | GAVI partners fulfill promise to fight pneumococcal disease The GAVI Alliance partners, the World Bank, WHO and UNICEF, and five national governments and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation formally kick-off the first-ever Advance Market Commitment (AMC) designed to accelerate access to vaccines against pneumococcal disease. Read more |
| 05 June 2009 | WHO recommends global use of rotavirus vaccines The World Health Organization has recommended that rotavirus vaccination be included in all national immunization programmes in order to provide protection against a virus that is responsible for more than 500,000 diarrhoeal deaths and two million hospitalisations annually among children. Read more Other languages: Francais |
| 03 June 2009 | Netherlands to join innovative funding programme for immunisation The Netherlands pledges Euros 80 million over eight years to an innovative financing initiative that converts long-term government pledges into immediate funds for children’s vaccination programmes. Read more |
| 03 June 2009 | GAVI recognises United States' contribution to global immunisation initiative The United States will donate $75 million to the GAVI Alliance’s immunisation initiative to protect children in the world’s poorest countries with new and under-used vaccines – its largest annual contribution to date. Read more |
| 26 May 2009 | GAVI appoints Helen Evans as new Deputy CEO GAVI has appointed Australian development expert Helen Evans as its first Deputy Chief Executive Officer. Ms. Evans will join GAVI in June after serving for the past four years as Deputy Executive Director at the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Read more |
| 19 May 2009 | Developing countries increasingly help finance purchase of life-saving vaccines Twenty seven countries contribute to vaccine costs through the GAVI Alliance; up from just six in 2007. Read more |
| 19 May 2009 | IFFIm raises more than US$ 2 billion to support life-saving immunisation programmes in poorest countries The International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm) board chairman Alan Gillespie tells participants at a meeting on innovative financing in Geneva that there is a strong demand among individual and institutional investors for ethical investments. Read more |
| 13 May 2009 | Spain first to back new immunisation push 29 million Euro donation will help accelerate vaccination efforts in 72 of the world’s poorest countries Read more |
| 29 April 2009 | Children must not pay the price of the global financial crisis Scientists, economists, health experts and NGOs mark the European Day of Immunology with urgent appeal to the G8. Read more |
| 24 April 2009 | Rwanda becomes first developing nation to introduce vaccine for world's leading infectious child killer International leaders in global health set to join Rwandan government officials at a press conference in Kigali to announce the first national immunisation programme against pneumococcal disease in a developing country. Read more Other languages: Francais | Italiano |
| 09 April 2009 | GAVI partners mobilise to counter meningitis outbreaks In an effort to save lives and contain the spread of meningitis, the GAVI Alliance has fast tracked a US$ 55 million contribution to establish a stockpile of meningococcal vaccines and pay for reactive campaigns in the highly endemic African “meningitis belt” countries. Read more |
| 07 April 2009 | Child health leaders call for day to unite against pneumonia, world’s top child killer Child health groups unite with Save the Children Artist Ambassadors Gwyneth Paltrow and Hugh Laurie to establish an annual World Pneumonia Day on November 2, 2009. The day will mobilise efforts to fight a neglected disease that kills more than two million children under the age of five each year worldwide. Read more |
| 30 March 2009 | Investing in health yields financial returns and benefits developing countries The GAVI Alliance and the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) unite more than 80 leading experts in healthcare from governments, business, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) for a high-level conference in London. Read more |
| 09 March 2009 | Gender policy to support equal access to vaccination for girls and boys The GAVI Alliance has started implementing a proactive gender policy into its work to ensure equal access to immunisation for boys and girls. GAVI’s Gender Policy commits the Alliance to use a gender perspective in the design, planning, and delivery of vaccinations and other health services. Read more |
| 03 March 2009 | Innovative Vaccine Investment ISA will help save children’s lives Investors are being offered an opportunity to save money and help save lives with a new Vaccine Investment ISA which aims to raise £50 million to vaccinate children in the world’s poorest countries. Read more |
| 16 February 2009 | Broadcaster Park Jung-sook will represent GAVI Alliance Broadcast journalist Park Jung-sook has been appointed to represent the GAVI Alliance as an advocate in the Republic of Korea. The Geneva-based GAVI Alliance is seeking to strengthen its ties with the Republic of Korea which is playing an increasingly prominent role in global health and development issues. Read more |
| 04 February 2009 | Nobel Prize winner and GAVI call for equal access to HPV vaccine 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. “Eighty-five percent of cervical cancer deaths each year are among women in the developing world,” said Dr Julian Lob-Levyt, GAVI Alliance Chief Executive Officer. “While richer nations are taking the proper steps to protect their women from cervical cancer, women in developing countries are dying. We can and must stop this inequality.” Read more |
| 16 January 2009 | “Vaccine bonds” offer Japanese savers an ethical investment which also helps save children’s lives “Vaccine bonds" which are expected to go on sale in Japan next month will offer Japanese investors a fixed rate of return plus an opportunity to see their money used to help immunise children in the world’s poorest countries. Read more |
| 15 January 2009 | Bangladesh introduces new vaccine to prevent severe forms of child pneumonia and meningitis 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. Read more Other languages: Français |
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