The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations, known as GAVI, officially launched the vaccination campaign today at the World Economic Forum. Every child deserves access to these vaccines, and millions of lives can be saved. We can, and we should, do this together. The Fund is one of the financial tools GAVI will use to save children's lives through improved immunization. GAVI is seeking additional large donations from the public and private sector.
Ill health is one of the primary causes for an individual or family's slide into poverty.
If globalization is going to work, it must work for all the world's children. That is the underlying meaning of the Children's Challenge. It is imperative to ensure that all societies can enjoy the good health necessary for full participation in the global economy. The same resolve that markets products in poor rural villages, and sends television programming into the most remote corners of the world, can surely overcome all the usually cited barriers to universal immunization. Other leaders also emphasized the numerous positive consequences of the GAVI initiative.