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GAVI Alliance
The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI Alliance) is a public-private partnership (PPP) whose objective is to protect the life of children and the health of all people in developing countries by vaccinating them against avoidable illnesses. To that end the performance of national immunisation programmes must be improved, new vaccines introduced and sustainable funding options established.
The GAVI Alliance was founded in 2000 and brings together all the most important decision-makers in the field of immunisation in a spirit of cooperation. These include governments from industrialised and developing countries, the WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, vaccine manufacturers, public health system institutions and NGOs. In early 2009 the GAVI Alliance took on the corporate form of an independent international institution under Swiss law.
The GAVI Alliance is a new instrument of international cooperation which aims to make additional funding options available in addition to previous bilateral and multilateral activities. The majority of funding will be spent on procuring vaccines against the following diseases: hepatitis B, haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib), yellow fever, tetanus, measles and diphtheria. The activities of the partners working within the GAVI Alliance are making an essential contribution to achieving Millennium Development Goal 4 ("reduce child mortality"). According to calculations done by the WHO, the immunisation programmes funded by the GAVI Alliance in the period 2000-2009 have prevented 5.4 million deaths.
The BMZ has supported the work of the GAVI Alliance since 2006, contributing four million euros in 2009.
Contact
GAVI Alliance Secretariat
2 Chemin des Mines
1202 Geneva
Switzerland
Phone: + 41/ 22 / 9 09 65 00
Fax: + 41 / 22 / 9 09 65 50
