GAVI features
| 13 June 2011 | Press conference webcast Broadcast from the “Saving children’s lives - the GAVI Alliance pledging conference for immunisation” held on 13 June 2011 in London. When: Monday 13 June 2011, 13:30 -14:00 BST, 08:30am - 09:00am EST. Watch here... |
| 13 June 2011 | Pledging conference for immunisation View images from the London pledging conference for immunisation where GAVI Alliance donors met to make firm commitments to funding life-saving vaccines for developing countries. Photo gallery... |
| 13 June 2011 | Donors commit vaccine funding to achieve historic milestone in global health Major public and private donors achieved a milestone in global health today by committing funding to immunise more than 250 million of the world’s poorest children against life-threatening diseases by 2015 and prevent more than four million premature deaths. Read more... |
| 12 June 2011 | GAVI’s Pledging Conference gets off to a flying start A number of public and private donors came forward with contributions to GAVI’s life saving mission this evening, ahead of tomorrow’s first GAVI Alliance pledging conference for immunisation. Read more... |
| 08 June 2011 | Prevention would be better than cure Doune Porter, PATH, reports from Sierra Leone, where diseases such as diarrhoea, pneumonia, and malaria, often combined with malnutrition, take the heaviest toll on young children. Read more... |
| 01 June 2011 | The power of the Alliance - Civil society In the lead-up to the GAVI Alliance pledging conference for immunisation, the advocacy efforts of civil society are ensuring GAVI’s mission is placed high on official agendas and in the public domain. Read more... |
| 31 May 2011 | Five reasons to invest in the GAVI mission - I CARE GAVI needs US$ 3.7 billion to avert four million future deaths by 2015. Here are five reasons why investing in vaccines and immunisation through our Alliance guarantees a high rate of return in lives and dollars. Impact. Compassion. Accountability. Right to health. Effectiveness. Read more... |
| 25 May 2011 | Pentavalent vaccine saves lives in Madagascar Linked to increasing immunisation coverage with vaccines such as the pentavalent, Madagascar is one of just six countries in the world to reduce its child mortality rates by more than 60% between 1990 and 2009. Photo story... |
| 19 May 2011 | GAVI 2010 Progress Report highlights momentum Marking the end of GAVI’s first decade, the 2010 Progress Report shows how unprecedented demand, accelerated access to vaccines and strong country ownership have helped save millions of lives. Read more... |
| 13 May 2011 | Meningitis memories from Ghana Mercy Ahun, Managing Director, Programme Delivery, GAVI Alliance, reflects on her time working with patients in Ghana suffering from the effects of meningococcal meningitis A, Ghana’s most common form of meningitis. Read more... |
| 12 May 2011 | Ten questions for Seth Berkley The incoming CEO of the GAVI Alliance, Seth Berkley, provides an insight into his commitment to immunisation and his vision for the future of global health. Read more... |
| 04 April 2011 | GAVI support kicks-off a healthy start into life for Congolese children On 4 April the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) joined the set of six countries that use the new vaccine against pneumococcus to protect their children. Read more... |
| 22 March 2011 | Immunisation key to cancer prevention One fifth of all cases of cancer are caused by chronic infections like hepatitis B and human papillomavirus (HPV) but vaccines exist to prevent both diseases. Read more... |
| 21 March 2011 | GAVI joins forces on International Women’s Day to call for rapid introduction of anti-cancer vaccine On the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, the GAVI Alliance and Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) called for HPV vaccines to be made available to women and girls living in the poorest countries of the world. Read more... |
| 07 March 2011 | Vaccination of babies offers important opportunity for women’s health too In celebration of the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day on 8 March 2011, this feature story looks at how vaccination can improve the health of mothers as well as their children. Read more... |
| 16 February 2011 | How to save four million children’s lives – GAVI’s vaccine programmes a breakthrough in child health In an exclusive commentary piece for GAVI, Canadian MP and physician Dr. Keith Martin underlines the public health value of vaccines in tackling pneumonia in developing countries. Read more... |
| 14 February 2011 | Global introduction of pneumococcal vaccines The rollout of pneumococcal vaccines in the developing world is underway across three continents. From Kenya and Honduras to Guyana, DRC and Yemen, the first GAVI-eligible countries are introducing pneumococcal vaccines to their national immunisation programmes in 2010 and 2011. Read more... |
| 11 February 2011 | Full marks for Kenya's pneumococcal vaccine rollout Training sessions for health workers set to help Kenya achieve its pneumococcal vaccine coverage target for 2011. Read more... |
| 31 January 2011 | Message from new GAVI Board Chair Dagfinn Høybråten outlines his priorities to ensure that GAVI continues to succeed in saving lives through immunisation. Read more... |
| 29 January 2011 | News blog: pneumococcal vaccine reaches Yemen PATH's Doune Porter reports from Yemen, where the pneumococcal vaccine has been introduced into the national immunisation programme through the support of GAVI and its partners. Read more... |
| 26 January 2011 | GAVI welcomes a new global commitment to vaccines A new partnership marking broader global collaboration around vaccines injects needed funding into GAVI’s efforts to help save millions of children and hopefully inspire other philanthropists to invest in childhood immunisation programmes. Read more... |
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