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The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization or GAVI is an An alliance can be: an agreement between two parties, particularly: a military alliance formed between states a business alliance formed between organisations a New Zealand political party, the Alliance a Canadian political party, the Canadian Alliance a Northern_Ireland political party, Alliance the former name of the Malaysian political coalition currently...
alliance between different actors in the The private sector of a nations economy consists of those entities which are not controlled by the state - i.e., a variety of entities such as private firms and companies, corporations, private banks, non-governmental organizations, etc. See also public sector voluntary sector privatization nationalisation Non-governmental organization State...
private and The public sector is that part of economic and administrative life that deals with the delivery of goods and services by and for the government, whether national, regional or local/municipal. Examples of public sector activity range from delivering social security, administering urban planning and organising national defences. The organisation...
public sector committed to the mission of saving A male Caucasian toddler child A child (plural: children) is a young human. Depending on context it may mean someone who is not yet an adult, or someone who has not yet reached puberty (someone who is prepubescent). Adults are often described as the children of their parents despite their...
children's lives and protecting people's health through the widespread use of A bottle and a syringe containing the influenza vaccine. A vaccine (named after vaccinia, the infectious agent of cowpox, which, when vaccinated, provides protection against smallpox) is used to enhance to response of the immune system. It may prepare a human or animals immune system to defend the body...
vaccines.
The alliance
A government is an organization that has the power to make and enforce laws for a certain territory. There are several definitions on what exactly constitutes a government. In its broadest sense, govern means the power to administrate, whether over an area of land, a set group of people, or...
Governments and vaccine industry of A developed country is a country that is technologically advanced and that enjoys a relatively high standard of living. In most cases, countries with a high per capita GDP are developed countries, however high GDP can be achieved (usually temporarily) through natural resource exploitation (e.g. Equatorial Guinea oil; Nauru...
industrialized countries
Governments and vaccine industry of A developing country is a country with low average income compared to the world average. The term has tended to edge out earlier ones, including the Cold War-defined Third World. The developing part of developing country may be considered euphemistic or perhaps optimistic, as many of the poorest countries...
developing countries
For other meanings of the acronym WHO, see WHO (disambiguation) WHO flag Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the World Health Organization (WHO) is an agency of the United Nations, acting as a coordinating authority on international public health. WHO was established by the UN on April 7, 1948. The current Director...
World Health Organization, WHO
UNICEF logo The United Nations International Childrens Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946. In 1953, its name was shortened to the United Nations Childrens Fund, but is still known by its popular acronym. Headquartered in New York City, UNICEF...
United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF
The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD, in Romance languages: BIRD), better known as the World Bank, is an international organization whose original mission was to finance the reconstruction of nations devastated by WWII. Now, its mission has expanded to fight poverty by means of financing states. Its operation...
The World Bank Group
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the worlds largest charitable foundation, endowed by Bill Gates, chairman and founder of Microsoft, and his wife, Melinda Gates. It was created in January 2000 through the merger of the Gates Learning Foundation and the William H. Gates Foundation. The foundation is...
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Research institutes
Nongovernmental organizations
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Foundations
Technical health institutes
External links
GAVI (http://www.vaccinealliance.org/) - The Vaccine Alliance
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Vaccination (Latin: vacca—cow) is so named because the first vaccine was derived from a virus affecting cows: the cowpox virus, a relatively benign virus that provides a degree of immunity to smallpox, a contagious and deadly disease.
Vaccinations involve the administration of one or more immunogens, in the form of live, but weakened (attenuated) infectious agents, which normally are either weaker, but closely-related species (as with smallpox and cowpox), or strains weakened by some process.
Vaccination campaigns are generally accepted as having contributed to the worldwide elimination of smallpox, through herd immunity, and to the restriction of polio to isolated pockets in countries where healthcare access is difficult.
Globalimmunization of children is an elusive goal of public health officials world-wide.
New vaccines of great power were coming through the research and development pipeline and had been introduced or were about to be introduced into the immunization programs of industrialized countries, but there appeared to be no prospect of these becoming available as part of EPI.
In cases of technology transfer to vaccine manufacturers in developing countries, they would like their intellectual property rights to be respected and to have, therefore, normal joint venture and licensing processes observed.