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As temperatures rise, a new app aims to protect pregnant women from the heat

MotherHeat Alert is being tested in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Sweden, with tailored warnings and advice for the women most vulnerable to extreme heat.

Inside - and outside - Namibia’s fight to stop polio before it strikes

The threat of polio is back, and as the government races to protect the vulnerable, some are more at risk than others.

What a list of Black Death survivors reveals about the way people recovered from plague

Despite the deadliness of the disease, it was possible to recover from plague, and medieval chroniclers mention the possibility – however unlikely – of survival.

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The Gavi Leap

The Gavi Leap

The Gavi Leap is the most ambitious reform agenda in global health, offering a blueprint for broader reform of the health and development architecture. Learn more about how Leap principles, such as country ownership, radical simplification and innovation, are already having a tangible impact on how immunisation is delivered in Gavi-supported countries.

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Gavi supports vaccines against 20 infectious diseases, including Ebola, malaria, mpox and rabies.

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Strong health and immunisation systems are vital to deliver vaccines to all the children who need them.

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Civil society support

We provide grants for civil society organisations (CSOs) working to reach zero-dose children and missed communities with vaccines.

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Working to improve the health of markets for vaccines and other immunisation products.

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Gavi to propose new incentives aimed at advancing vaccine manufacturing in Africa

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance today announced that it will seek Board approval to deploy US$189 million to support the rapid development of Africa’s vaccine manufacturing ecosystem.

The Government of Burundi introduces the HPV vaccine to protect girls and prevent cervical cancer

Under the leadership of the Ministry of Public Health and with the support of  Gavi, UNICEF, and the WHO, Burundi has just launched, on April 29, 2026, the vaccine against HPV, which causes cervical cancer.

IRC, through Gavi’s ZIP programme, surpass 30 million vaccine doses, reaching over 1 million zero-dose children in crisis settings

Marking World Immunization Week 2026, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) announced that, together with partners in the Gavi-funded REACH consortium, it has delivered more than 30 million life-saving vaccine doses in some of the world’s most…

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The Vaccine Alliance

Gavi draws on the skills of a variety of partners, combining the technical expertise of the development community with the business know-how of the private sector.

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Gavi 6.0 funding guidelines

Newly released funding guidelines outline the scope of Gavi’s vaccine and cash support for the 2026–2030 strategic period (Gavi 6.0), explain how countries should plan and prioritise their immunisation programmes within this support, clarify the requirements for the Gavi 6.0 country application and describe how to access other forms of assistance such as outbreak and emergency support.

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Partner countries

Partner countries

Since its inception in 2000, Gavi has helped to immunise a whole generation – over 1.2 billion children – and prevented more than 20.6 million future deaths, helping to halve child mortality in 78 lower‑income countries.

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Our donors

As a public-private partnership, Gavi is funded by governments, foundations, institutions, organisations, corporations and private individuals.

Global Summit 2025

>1.2 billion children vaccinated through routine programmes
>20.6 million future deaths averted
17 countries fully self-financing
>280 US$ billion in economic benefits for countries
2.1 billion vaccinations through preventive vaccination campaigns