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Fifth
GAVI Board Meeting, 21-22 June 2001, London, England
June 2001
Financing Task Force update, including financial
sustainability and user fees
DECISIONS
The Board:
- approved the proposed definition of financial
sustainability, as follows:
Although self-sufficiency is the ultimate goal, in the nearer
term, sustainable financing is the abilitiy of a country to mobilize
and efficiently use domestic and supplementary external resources
on a reliable basis to achieve target levels of immunization performance;
- approved a statement to describe the position of
GAVI partners on user fees,
as follows:
In the absence of compelling country or regional data unequivocally
document their value, user fees should not be levied in publicly
financed national immunization services;
- acknowledged the need for continued work to develop
a database of immunization financing in countries. This database
would include information on immunization funding sources, expenditures
and gaps, and would help to guard against replacement funding
by the Vaccine Fund. The workplan being proposed by the FTF would
require an additional $300,000 over the next six months.
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