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Gavi Vaccine Alliance

Partnerships

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Excerpt from Gavi website as of June 5, 2023:[1],[2]

"Gavi’s impact draws on the strengths of its core partners, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and plays a critical role in strengthening primary health care (PHC), bringing us closer to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), ensuring that no one is left behind.
  • The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's initial pledge of US$ 750 million in 1999 provided the seed money to launch Gavi.
  • As a founding member of Gavi and the UN's specialist agency on global health issues, WHO is a key Vaccine Alliance partner.
  • As the world's biggest buyer and supplier of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF has a pivotal role in the Vaccine Alliance.
  • The World Bank brings the expertise of the world's biggest source of development assistance to the Vaccine Alliance.

Alliance with WHO

From the United Nations' World Health Organization website:[3]

GAVI, The Vaccine Alliance (GAVI) was set up as a Global Health Partnership in 2000 with the goal of creating equal access to new and underused vaccines for children living in the world’s poorest countries. In particular, GAVI aims at accelerating access to vaccines, strengthening countries’ health and immunization systems, and introducing innovative new immunization technology. Since GAVI’s inception, it has subsequently supported the immunization of an additional 326 million children and prevented a potential 5.5 million deaths.
WHO is one of four permanent members of the GAVI Board and alternate Chair (with UNICEF) of GAVI’s Executive Committee. WHO further supports GAVI’s activities by facilitating vaccine related research and development, standards setting and regulating vaccine quality. It further develops evidence-based policy options to guide vaccine use and maximize country access. GAVI further benefits from WHO input on issues ranging from cold chain and vaccine management, to training and post-introduction analysis of vaccines.
The Regional Office for Europe and the WHO country offices support the coordination of GAVI activities in countries in the European Region. WHO offices assist country health authorities in drafting applications for GAVI support and drawing up a plan of action for introducing vaccines. In addition, the WHO/Europe provides technical support to implementing immunization programmes, including storage and logistics, as well as undertaking monitoring and evaluation measures.
A core element of GAVI’s current development model is to work together with countries in scaling up domestically funded immunization efforts. As countries develop economically, GAVI requires them to take on more of the costs until they ‘transition’ fully out of GAVI support.

Board Members

From the Gavi website as of June 5, 2023:[4]

References

  1. ↑ The power of partnership (accessed June 5, 2023)
  2. ↑ Gavi's partnership model (accessed June 5, 2023)
  3. ↑ Global Health Partnerships: Gavi Alliance (accessed June 5, 2023)
  4. ↑ Members (accessed June 5, 2023)
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