On June 4, 2020 the UK hosted the GAVI virtual Global Vaccine Summit where world leaders pledged financial commitment for “equitable immunisation coverage and global health security in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic”.
- Australia pledged $244 million
Oxfam expected this Vaccine Alliance pledging conference “to raise at least US$ 7.4 billion to support the roll out of vaccination programs across the developing world, and establish a new fund to help developing countries buy and distribute a coronavirus vaccine.”
At the summit the Immunisation Agenda 2030 (IA2030) officially launched, that is the new decade of vaccines, the “utopia” goal from 2015, to achieve “a world where everyone, everywhere, at every age, fully benefits from vaccines for good health“.