What is GAVI?

The International Finance Facility for Immunisation Company (IFFIm) is implemented through the GAVI Alliance, a public-private partnership of major stakeholders in immunisation.

It includes developing country and donor governments, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialised and developing countries, research and technical agencies, civil society organisations and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Since it was launched at the World Economic Forum in 2000, GAVI has prevented more than 3.4 million future deaths and helped protect 213 million additional children with new and under-used vaccines.

Seventy-two countries of the world’s poorest countries are eligible to apply to GAVI for funding for their immunisation programmes and for strengthening their health systems to increase and sustain immunisation. They are:

 

Afghanistan Angola Armenia Azerbaijan Bangladesh Benin Bhutan Bolivia Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo Congo, Dem Republic of Côte d'Ivoire Cuba* Djibouti Eritrea Ethiopia Gambia Georgia	Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras India Indonesia Kenya Kiribati Korea, DPR * Kyrgyz Republic Lao PDR Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Moldova Mongolia Mozambique Myanmar Nepal	Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Pakistan Papua New Guinea Rwanda São Tomé e Príncipe Senegal Sierra Leone Solomon Islands Somalia Sri Lanka Sudan Tajikistan Tanzania Timor Leste Togo Uganda Ukraine Uzbekistan Viet Nam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe
* GAVI does not use funds generated by IFFIm to support these countries' immunisation programmes.