Gavi, the vaccination alliance

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Gavi, the vaccination alliance
founding 2000
Seat Geneva
main emphasis Increase in vaccination rates
Action space Developing countries worldwide
people Seth Berkley , Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Website www.gavi.org

The Impfallianz Gavi (formerly Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization , Eng. Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization , then The Gavi Alliance ) is a global public-private partnership based in Geneva . In Switzerland it has the status of a foundation under Swiss law. Its aim is to improve access to vaccinations, especially for children, against preventable life-threatening diseases in developing countries.

Members are governments of industrialized and developing countries , the World Health Organization , UNICEF , the World Bank , the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , non-governmental organizations (NGOs), vaccine manufacturers from industrialized and developing countries as well as health and research institutions and other private donors. There are 28 constituencies in Gavi Board, one of them takes the CEO one (CEO). Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been the chairman of the Gavi vaccination alliance since 2015 . Her predecessor was Dagfinn Høybråten , who took over this position from Mary Robinson in December 2010 . Seth Berkley has been Managing Director of the Gavi Vaccine Alliance since August 2011 .

founding

The alliance was founded on January 29, 2000 at the World Economic Forum in Davos in order to counteract the stagnating, and in some cases even declining, vaccination rates in the world's poorest countries since the end of the 1990s . It is true that effective vaccines were available that would have had a great effect on people, according to managing director Berkley; however, there was a lack of access to medical treatment and other ways to prevent infection. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation initially provided $ 750 million to provide vaccines to children in developing countries .

engagement

Since its inception, Gavi has funded the vaccination of 760 million children against life-threatening diseases such as diphtheria , tetanus , whooping cough (pertussis), hepatitis B , yellow fever and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib, a pathogen that causes meningitis and pneumonia ). This has prevented an estimated 13 million deaths. In addition, child mortality for children under 5 has been halved.

In addition, the organization began to introduce two new vaccines in developing countries in 2010: the pneumococcal vaccine protects against pneumonia, the rotavirus vaccine against a major pathogen causing diarrhea . Pneumonia and diarrhea are the leading causes of death in children under five in developing countries. The two diseases are responsible for almost 40 percent of all deaths.

After a donor conference in June 2011, at which a total of nearly 3 billion euros (4.3 billion US dollars) were pledged for vaccination programs, the Vaccine Alliance announced that it would accelerate access to new vaccines and predict another four million premature deaths by 2015 prevent. In order to achieve Millennium Development Goal No. 4 (reducing child mortality among under-five-year-olds by two thirds by 2015), vaccinations make a decisive contribution.

The vaccine alliance Gavi has been one of the five founding members of the NGO ID2020 Digital Identity Alliance since 2017 .

For 2020, the donor conference ("replenishment conference") is planned for June in London . The goal for Gavi is "to vaccinate another 300 million children in developing countries in the next few years and thus to save eight million people from death". This will require around 7.4 billion US dollars.

Working method

According to the organization, it works according to the principle of "country-owned, country-driven": This means that the developing countries themselves determine which vaccinations they need, apply for funding and monitor implementation. Gavi also demands that the recipient countries share the costs of the vaccination programs. In this way, the aim is to strengthen the countries' sense of responsibility and ensure the sustainability of vaccination programs. In 2011, 50 countries applied to Gavi for vaccine funding. In the long term, however, demand is expected to decrease, as Gavi's funding will expire in 22 countries by 2020.

Gavi bundles the demand for vaccines and can thus buy large quantities. Overall, UNICEF asks for 40 percent of the global vaccine volume, around half of it on behalf of Gavi. By guaranteeing manufacturers a purchase of the vaccine and fixed prices for the first batches, Gavi aims to interest more manufacturers, including those from emerging countries, in producing suitable vaccines for developing countries. The resulting competition between the companies should ensure that the prices for vaccines fall. Gavi is committed to continuing to promote these developments and has made influencing the vaccine markets a focus of her work.

Gavi and Germany

Germany has been a Gavi donor country since 2006. Initially, the funding commitments were 4 million euros per year. Since then, Germany has continuously increased its annual commitments; in 2012 they amounted to 30 million euros. In January 2015, Germany hosted the Gavi donors conference in Berlin under the patronage of Chancellor Angela Merkel. In the run-up to the conference, various non-governmental organizations demanded that German commitments be increased to 100 million euros annually. In her speech at the conference, Chancellor Merkel announced that she wanted to increase the support to 600 million euros by 2020. At the 50th World Economic Forum in Davos in 2020, Merkel had promised financing of 600 million euros for the period 2021–2025.

Together with France , the European Commission , Ireland and Luxembourg, Germany forms a voting group on the Gavi Board of Directors. In 2018, Germany represented this group as a deputy board member, in 2019 as a board member; the latter is also planned for 2021.

rating

GlaxoSmithKline sent a representative to the Gavi board as a partner until 2011. Critics complain that the prices for the vaccine doses could be lower. The funding of scientific studies to support the benefits of vaccination campaigns by GAVI or its sponsors is viewed as a conflict of interest. Doctors Without Borders and Oxfam criticize the influence of industry on Gavi. They demand transparent pricing and publicly funded research. Against a possible influence from pharmaceutical companies, Berkley replies that "we buy vaccines for about 60 percent of the world's population", which means that Gavi is able to "negotiate much better prices than each government individually."

At Global Health 50/50 Report 2018 , data from 140 organizations compares in the health sector in terms of gender equality worldwide, Gavi did well.

The organization was awarded the Lasker ~ Bloomberg Public Service Award in 2019 .

In 2020 the international NGO Save the Children praised Gavi for her commitment to preventable diseases and is demanding further monetary support for Gavi from the German federal government.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  14. ↑ Information on the Millennium Development Goal No. 4 on the website of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development: http://www.bmz.de/de/ministerium/ziel/2030_agenda/historie/MDGs_2015/fortätze/mdg4/index.html , accessed on March 11, 2018
  15. ↑ Founding members of the ID2020 Digital Identity Alliance , https://id2020.org/alliance , accessed on April 8, 2020
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  17. ↑ Information on Gavi's financing model on the Gavi website (in English) http://www.gavi.org/about/gavis-business-model/ , accessed on October 1, 2014
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  19. ↑ Information on Gavi funding from 2016-2020 (in English) www.gavi.org/Library/Publications/Publications-GAVI/The-2016-2020-GAVI-Alliance-Investment-Opportunity---Executive-Summary/, accessed on October 1, 2014
  20. ↑ See information on the UNICEF website (in English) http://www.unicef.org/supply/index_gavi.html , accessed on January 1, 2012.
  21. ↑ See the information (in English) on the website of the vaccine alliance Gavi, http://www.gavi.org/Library/News/ROI/2010/GAVI-model-increases-vaccine-manufacturers/ , accessed on 2 October 2014.
  22. ↑ Spiegel Online from June 6, 2011, '' Pharmachef reads the riot act in his branch '' http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/0,1518,766885,00.html , accessed on January 1, 2012.
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  24. ↑ Press release of the vaccine alliance Gavi from June 6th 2011, '' GAVI welcomes price reductions for life-saving vaccines '' (in English), http://www.gavi.org/Library/News/Press-releases/2011/GAVI-welcomes- lower-prices-for-life-saving-vaccines / , accessed January 1, 2012.
  25. ↑ Press release of the vaccination alliance Gavi from November 28, 2006, "Germany joins GAVI Alliance as 17th donor government" (in English), http://www.gavi.org/Library/News/Press-releases/2006/Germany-joins- GAVI-Alliance-as-17th-donor-government / , accessed October 1, 2014
  26. ↑ Information on the partnership between Germany and Gavi on the website of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, http://www.bmz.de/de/was_wir_machen/wege/multilaterale_ez/akteure/wio/GAVI_Alliance/index.html , accessed on 1 October 2014
  27. ↑ Press release of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of January 27th, 2015, http://www.bmz.de/de/presse/aktuelleMommunikations/2015/januar/150127_pm_003_Impfschutz-fuer-300-Millionen-Kinder-Minister-Mueller-eroeffnet -Geberkonferenz-der-internationale-Impfallianz-Gavi-in-Berlin / index.html , accessed on April 17, 2015
  28. ↑ Press release of the World Population Foundation of July 24, 2014, http://www.weltbevoelkerung.de/aktuelles/details/show/detail/News/gavi-wiederauffuellungskonferenz-im-januar-2015-in-deutschland.html , accessed on 1 October 2014
  29. ↑ Press release from ONE Germany from May 20, 2014, archive link ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 1, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.one.org
  30. ↑ Speech by Chancellor Merkel at the GAVI replenishment conference on January 27, 2015 in Berlin, http://www.bundesregierung.de/Content/DE/Rede/2015/01/2015-01-27-merkel-gavi.html , accessed on April 17, 2015
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  34. ↑ The Global Health 50/50 Report (PDF file)
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