While the western world has discussed new vaccines against the new disease corona, which primarily affects the elderly, work continues in the world’s poorest countries to vaccinate against old diseases, which particularly affect the youngest. Since 2000, the vaccine alliance GAVI (the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization) has vaccinated a billion children against a number of diseases, which are by no means new and rarely make the front pages, but which nevertheless kill many children every year. These include measles, tetanus, rubella, cholera and yellow fever. Diseases that can be serious, but there are also well-known and well-tested vaccines ready for use. Saving millions of lives Since 2021 alone, the countries of the world have vaccinated 130 million children via GAVI, and the collaboration is well on its way to reaching the next goal of vaccinating a total of 300 million children by 2025. If the goal is reached, the many vaccinations are expected to save between seven and eight million lives. This appears in a new evaluation report, which came out in connection with a large donor conference in Madrid, which has just ended. – In India, there is now a whole generation of young adults, who are alive and well thanks to the effects of immunization – let’s try to achieve even more for those who are still children today, said the Indian Minister of Health, Mansukh Mandaviya, at the conference. GAVI is a huge partnership between private and public, where the developing countries and donor countries have joined forces with the UN, the World Health Organisation, development organisations, the vaccine industry, large businesses and private sponsors such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The aim is to distribute vaccines to far more people in the world and to bring down the price of the vaccines by coordinating the joint purchase of many doses at once and thus achieving a quantity discount. The latter has only been partially achieved. According to GAVI itself, “some progress” has been made, and so far a total of 300 million dollars has been saved on the large volume purchases between 2021 and 2025. But the goal was actually to save 900 million. In addition to one billion children, the alliance also vaccinates around five billion adults against a number of different diseases.
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Global alliance has now vaccinated one billion children against deadly diseases
