Title: GIVS
Description: In response to challenges in global immunization, WHO and UNICEF developed the Global Immunization Vision and Strategy, 2006-2015. In brief, GIVS aims to immunize more people, from infants to seniors, with a greater range of vaccines. Its chief goal is to, by 2015 or earlier, reduce illness and death due to vaccine-preventable diseases by at least two thirds compared to 2000 levels. GIVS has four main aims: to immunize more people against more diseases; to introduce a range of newly available vaccines and technologies; to provide a number of critical health interventions and surveillance with immunization; and to manage vaccination programmes and activities within the context of global interdependence. It provides almost 25 strategies from which countries can choose for implementation according to their specific needs.
Subjects: Immunization, Vaccination