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01 August 2008First Shot of Pentavalent Vaccine for the Children of the Solomon Islands
Support from the GAVI Alliance enables Introduction of Vaccine against Deadly Haemophilus influenzae type b (or Hib) and Four Other Diseases. For the first time in its history, the Solomon Islands began vaccinating its children today against Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and four other common diseases through the use of a 5-1 vaccine purchased with funding from the GAVI Alliance.
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26 June 2008GAVI Alliance Commits Further Support for Vaccines Against Pneumonia and Meningitis
A new blow against the major childhood killer pneumococcal disease was delivered yesterday when the GAVI Alliance Board confirmed its intent to provide US$1.3 billion for the purchase of pneumococcal vaccines for children in the developing world.
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25 June 2008New Vaccine Strategy Prioritizes Deadly Diseases
An alliance of the world’s top global health agencies, governments and private partners today approved a plan that will prioritize their support of new and underused vaccines to fight deadly disease in the developing world.
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20 June 2008Successes In Global Immunisation Boost ProgressTowards MDGs
A revitalised global effort to improve immunisation programmes and strengthen health systems in the poorest countries is saving an increasing number of lives and making a significant impact towards achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals.
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23 May 2008Stronger health systems are key to battling disease in poorest countries
In response to unprecedented demand from developing countries, the GAVI Alliance will increase its funding for health system strengthening to US$800 million. The flexible long-term funds will enable the world’s poorest countries to strengthen their healthcare systems to deliver vaccines and other health interventions more effectively.
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24 April 2008Symposium Announces Great Strides in Childhood Immunisation
Top vaccine experts and child advocates meeting in Barcelona today hailed dramatic new evidence of the role of immunisation in reducing deaths among children in the world’s poorest nations. “Each day, more and more children are being given life-saving vaccines. With higher immunisation rates, fewer of them are now dying of preventable infectious diseases,” said Graça Machel, President of the Foundation for Community Development (FDC) for Mozambique.
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Other languages: Español
09 April 2008Australia and Papua New Guinea launch efforts to crush deadly Hib disease in Pacific region
New vaccine rollout through the GAVI Alliance expected to help extinguish childhood killer. Papua New Guinea will begin immunising children this month with a vaccine that promises to rid the nation of Haemophilus Influenzae type b, or Hib disease, one of the deadliest causes of meningitis and pneumonia.
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12 March 2008Denmark supports immunisation efforts in the developing world
The GAVI Alliance today thanked the Danish government for Denmark’s support to GAVI. During the meeting GAVI and the Danish Minister discussed issues related to vaccine deliveries in developing countries with weak health systems and also the role of GAVI in the international health architecture.
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10 March 2008Deadly Disease Eliminated in Children under Five Years of Age in Uganda
Hib meningitis has been virtually eliminated in young children in Uganda just five years after the country introduced Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine nationwide, according to an independent study.
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04 March 2008Japanese Investors Welcome the Launch of IFFIm’s Debut “Vaccine Bonds”
Japanese investors enthusiastically welcomed the launch of the debut offering in the Japanese market of the International Finance Facility for Immunisation Company (“IFFIm”), a ZAR 1.7 billion (USD equivalent 223 million) two year uridashi issue. The funds raised by the issue will be used by the GAVI Alliance for health and immunisation programmes in 70 of the poorest countries around the world to save millions of lives.
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27 February 2008“Vaccine bonds” offered in Japan will help save children’s lives in the developing world
A "vaccine bond" expected to be offered in Japan next month aims to accelerate efforts to immunise children in the world’s poorest countries against deadly diseases, the first initiative of its kind in Japan to use the capital markets to raise funds for a specific development purpose.
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15 February 2008Spain’s leading corporate foundation gives €4 million for child immunisation
La Caixa Foundation (Fundacion Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona) has announced a €4 million donation to the GAVI Fund’s Immunise Every Child Campaign. The money will be used to help vaccinate children in the world’s poorest countries against life-threatening diseases.
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Other languages: Español
08 February 2008Bold Canadian investment of US $158 million helped prevent thousands of future deaths
A bold and far-sighted investment in child survival by the Canadian government over the last five years has helped save hundreds of thousands of lives and paved the way for further reductions in child mortality globally.
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23 January 20082.9 million future deaths prevented by GAVI immunisation programmes since 2000, new data show
Targetted immunisation backed by innovative financing to pay for the introduction of new vaccines is key to reducing child mortality in the world’s poorest countries, the GAVI Alliance said today.
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Other languages: Français