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Since its creation in 2000, the GAVI Alliance has helped to increase significantly the number of children worldwide who have access to immunisation.

WHO projections for the period 2000-2007 show GAVI support has:

  • prevented 2.9 million future deaths. (This was estimated to be 2.3 million for the period 2000-2006);
  • protected 36.8 million additional children with basic vaccines (against diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis) (This was estimated to be 25.6 million for the period 2000-2006);
  • protected 176 million additional children with new and underused vaccines (This was estimated to be 136 million for the period 2000-2006);

The breakdown of new and underused vaccine coverage show:

  • 158.6 million additional children have been immunised against hepatitis B (This was estimated to be 123.7 million for the period 2000-2006);
  • 28.3 million additional children have been immunised against Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) (This was estimated to be 20.1 million for the period 2000- 2006);
  • 26.3 million additional children have been immunised against yellow fever (This was estimated to be 18.1 million for the period 2000-2006).

Not all children received all three new and underused vaccines. Therefore, the total figure of 176 million children is not the sum of children vaccinated against hepatitis B, Hib, and yellow fever.

Significant declines are now being seen in the price of DTP-HepB vaccine as demand is generated and new players enter the market. Declining prices are vital to ensuring vaccination programmes are sustainable.

In 2006 almost 30% of all the vaccine doses purchased by UNICEF for the GAVI Alliance came from developing country manufacturers.

Spending on vaccines in the poorest countries supported by GAVI more than doubled from US$2.50 to over US$5.00 per child between 2000 and 2005.

These countries currently finance an average of one third of their immunisation costs.

Since the GAVI Alliance inception, spending on routine immunisation in GAVI implementing countries has risen from all sources

SOURCES: WHO-UNICEF coverage estimates for 1980-2006, as of August 2007, WHO-ICE T coverage projections for 2007-2010, as of November 2007, World Population Prospects, the 2006 revision. New York, United Nations, 2007, Department of Immunisation, Vaccines and Biologicals projection for year 2006. November 2006, UNICEF Supply Division, 2007, Lydon P Immunization Financial Sustainability: A Look Across 50 GAVI Countires. Unpublished mimeograph, 2007.