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Global Immunization Vision and Strategy (GIVS)

GIVS defines the challenges and goals for global stakeholders in immunisation. The GAVI Alliance plays a vital part in progress towards those goals by funding vaccine introduction programmes.

UNICEF and WHO have developed the Global Immunization Vision and Strategy (GIVS) for the period 2002-2015.

Its ultimate goal is to reduce the level of vaccine-preventable illness and death by at least two thirds compared to 2000 levels, thus achieving the Millennium Development Goal for child health. This equates to the saving of more than 40 million lives.

The GAVI Alliance is funding vaccine introduction programmes that are a vital part of achieving the strategic vision embodied in GIVS, including:

GIVS emphasises the need to immunise a greater number of children and adults in developing countries with a wider range of vaccines. Its objectives include reducing the number of children who are not immunised by 60% by 2010 so plans are being drawn up to target the eight large countries that account for almost two thirds of the world's unimmunised children. These are:

  1. India
  2. Nigeria
  3. Indonesia
  4. Pakistan
  5. Ethiopia
  6. DR Congo
  7. Sudan
  8. the Philippines.