GAVI Alliance partners reaching more unvaccinated children than ever

The GAVI Alliance’s public-private partnership is helping more children in the developing world than ever before to receive life-saving immunizations, GAVI said on Wednesday. According to information presented during an accountability meeting in Stockholm, GAVI partners supported the immunization of 97 million children in 2011 and 2012, saving an estimated 1.1 million lives. When combined with a record number of vaccine introductions in 2013, GAVI is on pace to reach its goal of immunizing an additional quarter of a billion children between 2011 and 2015. “Well-spent development aid can save and change lives,” Hillevi Engström, the minister for international development cooperation in Sweden, said. “The GAVI Alliance is achieving impressive results and clearly demonstrating the cost-effectiveness of immunization as a tool for improving global health. It is important that the partners who have met in Stockholm today continue to work together to find ways of reaching the 22 million children who go...