? June 04, 2020 ?14:00 GMT
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The UK government will host Gavi’s Third Donor Pledging Conference to mobilise at least an additional US$ 7.4 billion to protect the next generation with vaccines, reduce disease inequality and create a healthier, safer and more prosperous world.
The Summit is an important milestone to secure support for Gavi’s five-year strategy, which will immunise 300 million children and save up to 8 million lives by 2025, and for Gavi’s vital work to strengthen health systems around the world and help to tackle coronavirus in some of the world’s poorest countries. This will help stop future waves of infection spreading globally, including coming to the UK.
2020 marks an important milestone for Gavi to build on the historic gains made since its creation, 20 years ago.
The event will follow the successful Gavi pledging conference in Berlin in January 2015, which raised US $7.5 billion for the 2016-2020 period. This year’s event will raise funds to support Gavi’s programmes from 2021-2025. These resources will be complemented by developing countries co-financing and the vaccine industry’s contributions.
Original source: DFID
Published on 24 April 2020
