KEY CHANNELS OF DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE FOR HEALTH Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance is a public-private partnership Gavi is currently working toward its own replenishment, dedicated to creating equal access to vaccines for people in aiming to raise $7.4 billion to cover the period 2021–2025. To the world’s poorest countries; Gavi’s mission is to save that end, in 2019, Gavi announced that its next replenishment children’s lives and protect people’s health by increasing conference would be hosted by the United Kingdom.43 equitable use of vaccines in lower-income countries. Founded “Vaccines don’t just build healthier societies, they build in 2000 by a group of public-private partners – the Bill & healthier economies,” said Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the chair Melinda Gates Foundation, UNICEF, WHO, and the World of Gavi’s board, when the conference was announced. Some Bank – Gavi works “to encourage manufacturers to lower examples of projects Gavi supported in 2019 include vaccine prices for the poorest countries in return for Ethiopia’s introduction of a measles vaccine44 and a Gavi- long-term, high-volume, and predictable demand from those funded cholera vaccine campaign in Mozambique.45 countries.” Gavi supports countries by offering health In 2019, Gavi disbursed $1.8 billion in funding, increasing systems strengthening support, vaccine support, cold-chain 11.1% from 2018. The UK provided $306.4 million to Gavi in equipment optimization programs and support, and targeted 2019, the Gates Foundation provided $406.1 million, the US country assistance. In 2019, Gavi channeled $1.8 billion in provided $307.0 million, and Norway provided $185.8 million. development assistance for health to child health (94.4% of Figure 1 shows Gavi DAH provided by source in 2019, while Gavi funding) and non-communicable disease-related Figure 2 shows trends in DAH by health focus area for the programs. Top sources of funding for Gavi in 2019 were the period 2010–2019. And per Figure 3, in 2017, 52.6% of DAH Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the United States, and the disbursed by Gavi went to sub-Saharan Africa and 25.5% to United Kingdom. South Asia.
Figure 1 DAH disbursed by Gavi from each source, 2019*
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