This decision marks the first major shift in vaccine pricing since the birth of the GAVI Alliance -- a public-private partnership working to improve access to immunization in developing countries -- in 2000.
In its global health work, the UN Foundation has dedicated efforts to improve access to immunization and family planning, prevent malaria, and advance SRMNCAH efforts along the continuum of care and in fragile and complex operating environments, all working to advance UN system priorities.
UNICEF is supporting efforts to strengthen health systems in Liberia, with a strong focus on improving access to community health facilities, routine immunization, increasing nutrition, as well as ensuring better water, sanitation and hygiene systems in health facilities and schools.
This includes increasing global immunization coverage and improving access to education as well as its quality, especially for girls.
The programme aimed to impact maternal, newborn and child health in Northern Nigeria by improving access to maternal and child health, including routine immunization services, in four States: Jigawa, Katsina, Zamfara and Yobe.
The global immunization community has prioritized improving access to new life-saving vaccines and eradicating or eliminating vaccine-preventable diseases.
To achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for health, improving access to key interventions such as anti-retroviral therapy, immunizations, and tuberculosis and malaria treatment, are top priorities for most health systems [ 1- 3].
Nonstate organizations play important roles in all aspects of the access regime, particularly through public-private partnerships for developing new drugs (e.g., Medicines for Malaria Venture, Global Alliance on TB Drug Development) or improving access to existing drugs (e.g., Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, Green Light Committee on second-line tuberculosis drugs [ 39 ]).
Access PPPs, such as The Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) or the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), have the goal of improving access to treatments by providing funding mechanisms for purchase of existing drugs or vaccines.
In poor countries, multilateral organizations, including the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), have taken an active role in improving access to vaccines [ 21].
