Gavi features

Julia Roberts and Bear Grylls documentary about immunisation supply chain featured in 2017 telethon.

Ahead of Seth Berkley’s speech to the 2017 graduating class at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC on 23 June, Global Health published a two-part Q&A with the Gavi CEO. In this second article, Seth shares his concerns about the expansion of the vaccine hesitancy movement, explains why digital identity technologies in low- and middle-income countries can help improve vaccine coverage, and discusses the value of testing the potentially important malaria vaccine.

Ahead of Seth Berkley’s speech to the 2017 graduating class at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC on 23 June, Global Health published a two-part Q&A with the Gavi CEO. In this first article, Seth describes Gavi’s latest priorities, highlights the increased risk of epidemics starting in densely populated urban slums and emphasises the need to reach every child with all WHO-recommended vaccines.

Find out when and where the World Health Assembly focuses on boosting vaccination coverage and immunisation’s wider role in global health

After a Gavi slideshow underlines how mothers living world’s apart share the same views on childhood immunisation, Norway’s Foreign Affairs Minister and the Director-General of the Institute of Public Health talk about the value of vaccines.

Izimili Raude knows that her community must rely on vaccines, not miracles, to spare children from a deadly disease.

Life-saving vaccines set to reach more African children thanks to Leaders pledge at African Union Summit.

Rotavirus vaccine introduction paves the way for national roll-out in Pakistan.

Five years ago the Côte d’Ivoire was hit by a civil war that claimed thousands of lives and ravaged the nation’s healthcare system. Today, immunisation coverage is almost back up to its pre-war level. How has the country turned round its immunisation rates so quickly?