WHO launch Children’s Vaccine Initiative (CVI)

At the WHO’s World Summit For Children in September 29-30, 1990 the Children’s Vaccine Initiative (CVI) was launched  with the aim of getting 80% of the world’s children under the age of 1 year vaccinated with “under-used” vaccines by the year 2000.  The program was co-sponsoered by UNICEF, UNPG, World Bank and Rockefeller Foundation.  With the overarching “goal” to achieve a world in which all people at risk are protected against vaccine-preventable diseases. [1, 2]

The objective was not only to increase the number of vaccine antigens available to children, but to provide multivalent vaccine formulations that may be administered with fewer inoculations. [3]