Subject : International relations
Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI):
√Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has been nominated by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) as a member on the GAVI Board.
√The GAVI Board is responsible for strategic direction and policymaking, oversees the operations of the Vaccine Alliance and monitors programme implementation.
√Created in 2000, Gavi is an international organisation – a global Vaccine Alliance, bringing together public and private sectors with the shared goal of creating equal access to new and underused vaccines for children living in the world’s poorest countries.
√Gavi brings together developing country and donor governments, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialised and developing countries, research and technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists.
√GAVI’s strategy supports its mission to save children’s lives and protect people’s health by increasing access to immunisation in poor countries.
√ It contributes to achieving the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals by focusing on performance, outcomes and results.
√ Its partners provide funding for vaccines and intellectual resources for care advancement.
√They contribute, also, to strengthening the capacity of the health system to deliver immunisation and other health services in a sustainable manner.
?focus area for prelims 2021:
√ Members of GAVI
√vaccine and different types of vaccines
For mains 2020: significance of GAVI
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