The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) "movement" was officially launched January 31, 2000 at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. GAVI headquarters are based in Geneva, Switzerland. The board of GAVI held their first meeting held on October 28, 1999 in New York. The World Health Organization is a founding partner of GAVI with its Director-General, Dr Brundtland chairing the GAVI Board for the first two years. [1, 5] "Nearly three million children worldwide still die needlessly each year of vaccine-preventable illnesses," ... "For only US $17 per child, we can provide lifetime protection against the six historical scourges - polio, diphtheria, tuberculosis, pertussis, measles and tetanus. And for not much more, we can extend the protection to include hepatitis B, yellow fever and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), the leading cause of pneumonia and meningitis." said Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland , Director-General of the WHO and the chair of GAVI, and author of "Sustainable Development" "The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization is a partnership dedicated to ensuring that all children, however poor, have equal access to these vaccines. The Alliance also works to spur the development of new vaccines against major killers that primarily..
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