With a price drop to below $1 a dose, UNICEF has successfully secured a five-in-one vaccine for children at half the price the agency currently pays, which will allow it to buy 450 million doses for 80 countries over...
International donors pledged $7.5 billion on Tuesday to immunise 300 million children in poor countries against deadly diseases such as diarrhoea and pneumonia. At a Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI)...
The EU has pledged an increase to its annual aid budget for vaccines and immunisation programmes from €10 million to €25 million in the 2014-2020 budgetary period, on the day that the Gavi Alliance launches a funding...
Among the many causes that Nelson Mandela championed, he was a powerful voice for children’s rights and access to life-saving vaccines. Nelson Mandela was universally recognised for his inspirational efforts to...
The GAVI Alliance’s public-private partnership is helping more children in the developing world than ever before to receive life-saving immunizations, GAVI said on Wednesday. According to information presented during an...
Ethiopia will begin protecting the 2.8 million children born in the country each year with a vaccine against rotavirus, which leads to severe, and often fatal, diarrhoea. The country has one of the greatest burdens of...
About 2.1 million children below the age of five are to be immunised against polio in a new mass campaign in 36 ‘high risk’ districts. The ‘door-to-door’ immunisation campaign worth sh8.8b is funded by the Government...
In an attempt to reduce the children-under-five mortality rate and expand the coverage of the national vaccination program, the government has launched the pentavalent vaccine, a vaccine that combines five antigens —...
The GAVI Alliance has approved US$ 21 million to help improve vaccine supply chains in Nigeria as part of a partnership aimed at scaling up routine immunization. The funds will be used by Nigeria’s National...
Funding for cold chain equipment and improved data collection to support Nigeria’s Saving One Million Lives Initiative. The GAVI Alliance has approved US$ 21 million to help improve vaccine supply chains in Nigeria as...