<p>London: The global vaccine organisation Gavi is likely to seek around $11.9 billion from governments and foundations on Thursday to fund immunisation efforts in the world’s poorest countries over five years, board documents reviewed by <em>Reuters</em> showed.</p><p>The amount will be finalised at a meeting on Thursday in Paris, where donors will make pledges for the organisation’s plan for 2026-2030.</p><p>A separately funded $1 billion scheme to boost vaccine production in Africa, the African Vaccine Manufacturing Accelerator, will also launch on Thursday.</p><p>Gavi helps low-income countries buy vaccines to protect against killer diseases. Around one billion children have been immunized as a result of Gavi’s work since 2020.</p><p>Gavi Chief Executive Sania Nishtar said the group aims to move more quickly and offer more vaccines. This will include expanding a malaria vaccine roll-out, which began in Cameroon this year, as well as catching up on routine programmes for diseases like measles, which were set back by the Covid-19 pandemic.</p>.Explained | How extreme heat threatens health and safety.<p>The global vaccine alliance wants to reach “the highest number of children, covering them against the widest number of diseases… in the shortest possible time,” Nishtar told <em>Reuters</em> in an interview on Wednesday, ahead of the meeting.</p><p>Nishtar said the amount in the board documents was not yet final, adding that it was a very challenging time for global health with aid budgets stretched worldwide by demands from conflicts to climate change.</p><p>“Gavi has never had to make trade-offs,” she said. “On the one hand, there is a wide portfolio of vaccines available. On the other hand, we’re looking at an environment where donors are resource constrained.”</p><p>But she said she was cautiously optimistic that the organization would raise the amount needed.</p><p>Gavi also plans to further expand its work in the coming years, for example by setting up an mpox vaccine stockpile. It is also likely to add a dengue vaccine to its programme as climate change puts more countries at risk of outbreaks. It will also establish a "day zero" $500m pandemic response fund for quick action on major outbreaks. </p>
<p>London: The global vaccine organisation Gavi is likely to seek around $11.9 billion from governments and foundations on Thursday to fund immunisation efforts in the world’s poorest countries over five years, board documents reviewed by <em>Reuters</em> showed.</p><p>The amount will be finalised at a meeting on Thursday in Paris, where donors will make pledges for the organisation’s plan for 2026-2030.</p><p>A separately funded $1 billion scheme to boost vaccine production in Africa, the African Vaccine Manufacturing Accelerator, will also launch on Thursday.</p><p>Gavi helps low-income countries buy vaccines to protect against killer diseases. Around one billion children have been immunized as a result of Gavi’s work since 2020.</p><p>Gavi Chief Executive Sania Nishtar said the group aims to move more quickly and offer more vaccines. This will include expanding a malaria vaccine roll-out, which began in Cameroon this year, as well as catching up on routine programmes for diseases like measles, which were set back by the Covid-19 pandemic.</p>.Explained | How extreme heat threatens health and safety.<p>The global vaccine alliance wants to reach “the highest number of children, covering them against the widest number of diseases… in the shortest possible time,” Nishtar told <em>Reuters</em> in an interview on Wednesday, ahead of the meeting.</p><p>Nishtar said the amount in the board documents was not yet final, adding that it was a very challenging time for global health with aid budgets stretched worldwide by demands from conflicts to climate change.</p><p>“Gavi has never had to make trade-offs,” she said. “On the one hand, there is a wide portfolio of vaccines available. On the other hand, we’re looking at an environment where donors are resource constrained.”</p><p>But she said she was cautiously optimistic that the organization would raise the amount needed.</p><p>Gavi also plans to further expand its work in the coming years, for example by setting up an mpox vaccine stockpile. It is also likely to add a dengue vaccine to its programme as climate change puts more countries at risk of outbreaks. It will also establish a "day zero" $500m pandemic response fund for quick action on major outbreaks. </p>