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Available statements, declarations, speeches, and editorials
2010
23 August 2010
GAVI offers sympathies to Pakistan
With 1,500 dead and 15 million people directly affected by Pakistan’s worst ever floods, I would like to convey GAVI’s deepest condolences to the Pakistani people.
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29 June 2010
GAVI welcomes G8 commitment to Muskoka Initiative
G8 study notes that 100% of government donations to GAVI will benefit mothers and young children in developing countries.
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17 May 2010
New Global Estimates of the Causes of Childhood Mortality
In a recent report, the World Health Organization outlined the disease-specific causes of the estimated 8.8 million annual child deaths.
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05 May 2010
Gavi Alliance welcomes Tony Lake, UNICEF’s new Executive Director
The GAVI Alliance welcomes the appointment of Mr Anthony Lake as Executive Director UNICEF, the world’s advocate for child survival and development.
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20 April 2010
GAVI Alliance Board backs funding platform for stronger health systems
The GAVI Alliance Board today agreed to pursue the implementation of a common Health System Funding Platform to make better use of new and existing funds for health systems and to leverage additional funding.
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23 March 2010
Donors welcome AMC’s first long-term supply commitments from leading pharmaceutical companies
The governments of Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, Russia, and Norway and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation welcome the first long-term agreements made by pharmaceutical firms to supply new, affordable vaccines against pneumococcal disease to the world’s poorest countries.
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19 March 2010
GAVI welcomes global health policy report by Center for Strategic & International Studies
The GAVI Alliance welcomes the landmark report by the CSIS Commission on Smart Global Health Policy, which reaffirms the strategic importance of the United States’ leadership and investments in a range of programmes, including GAVI, that have saved lives and improved the health of millions of people over the last 10 years.
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15 March 2010
UK doubles funding to GAVI Alliance
The United Kingdom’s pledge of GBP 150 million to the GAVI Alliance represents a ringing endorsement of our public-private partnership’s mission to save children’s lives and protect people’s health by increasing access to immunisation in the poorest countries.
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04 February 2010
Increasing access to vaccines will reduce the global burden of cancer
The GAVI Alliance, the American Cancer Society, and LIVESTRONG® welcome the campaign “Cancer can be prevented, too” which the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) is launching on February 4, World Cancer Day. On this occasion, the UICC will also release a new report on cancer prevention with a specific focus on cancers caused by infections.
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29 January 2010
On GAVI’s 10th Anniversary, Julian Lob-Levyt welcomes 'transformational role' of Bill and Melinda Gates
Today, GAVI celebrates 10 years of success. As we build on that success, Bill and Melinda Gates’ call for a “decade of vaccines” represents the second time that the Gates Foundation is playing a transformational role in the delivery of life-saving vaccines to the world’s poorest countries.
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26 January 2010
Eight global health agencies call for better global health data
As the Prince Mahidol Award Conference on Health Information kicks off in Bangkok, Thailand, and the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, gets underway this week, eight global health agencies call for a concerted global effort to collect better health data.
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15 January 2010
GAVI extends deepest condolences to people of Haiti
As television pictures confirm our worst fears about the devastating consequences of the Port-au-Prince earthquake, I would like to convey GAVI’s deepest condolences to the people of Haiti.
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