Description
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.
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Program areas at GAVI
Accelerating access to life-saving vaccines: in 2015, the Gavi Alliance surpassed its introduction targets for all three main vaccines - pentavalent, pneumococcal, and rotavirus - in countries eligible for Gavi support: Gavi exceeded its pentavalent introduction target reaching all 73 gavi-supported countries by the end of 2014, 12 months ahead of schedule; 8 countries introduced the pneumococcal vaccine in 2015, raising the total number of introductions to 54, above the target of 45; and, 3 countries introduced rotavirus vaccine in 2015, which brought Gavi's total introductions of rotavirus vaccine to 37, surpassing the 2015 target of 33 introductions