Press Releases
Japanese Investors Welcome the Launch of IFFIm’s
Debut “Vaccine Bonds”
4 March 2008
Japanese investors enthusiastically welcomed
the launch of the debut offering in the Japanese market of the International
Finance Facility for Immunisation Company (“IFFIm”),
a ZAR 1.7 billion (USD equivalent 223 million) two year uridashi
issue. The funds raised by the issue will be used by the GAVI Alliance
for health and immunisation programmes in 70 of the poorest countries
around the world to save millions of lives. [English]
“Vaccine bonds” offered in Japan
will help save children’s lives in the developing world.
27 February 2008
A "vaccine bond" expected to be offered
in Japan next month aims to accelerate efforts to immunise children
in the world’s poorest countries against deadly diseases, the
first initiative of its kind in Japan to use the capital markets to
raise funds for a specific development purpose. [English]
Vaccine Bonds to speed up access to life saving
vaccines in the poorest countries around the world.
29 January 2008
