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Advanced Course of Vaccinology (ADVAC)

05/06/2024 - 05/17/2024

Annecy, France

ADVAC is a two-week training programme for decision-makers, including academia, industry, governmental and non-governmental agencies. The course aims to facilitate critical decision-making in vaccinology by providing participants with a comprehensive overview of the various aspects of vaccinology (immunology, vaccine development, clinical trials, regulatory processes, vaccine-specific issues including new vaccines, vaccination strategies and policies, programme implementation, … Read More

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Christina Shaw

COVAX Facility Provides Global Equitable Access to COVID-19 Vaccines

Christina Shaw

The COVAX Facility — a collaboration created to guarantee quick and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines throughout the world — has garnered the interest of 75 countries and plans to support as many as 90 lower-income countries through Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance’s Advance Market Commitment (AMC).  The COVAX Facility together with the AMC is designed to guarantee … Read More

LNCT Member Newsletter July 2020

LNCT Updates Materials from Two Recent LNCT Webinars Now Available Online On June 23, LNCT held a webinar, Assessing Bottlenecks to Adequate and Predictable Vaccine Financing. The World Bank presented their tool which aims to help country counterparts pinpoint the root causes of bottlenecks that affect adequate and reliable vaccine financing. The materials from the webinar, including … Read More

Christina Shaw

New Evidence Shows Investments in Vaccination Produce Even Greater Returns than Previously Thought

Christina Shaw

This article originally appeared on Gavi’s website.  The Decade of Vaccine Economics (DoVE) Project, carried out by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) for nearly ten years, has computed the return-on-investment for vaccines preventing ten infectious diseases in 94 low- and middle-income countries, including 73 countries that have received support from … Read More

92 low- and middle-income economies eligible to get access to COVID-19 vaccines through Gavi COVAX AMC

Geneva, 31 July 2020 – A total of 92 low- and middle-income countries and economies will be able to access COVID-19 vaccines through Gavi’s COVAX Advance Market Commitment (AMC), the Gavi Board agreed yesterday. The Board also agreed that the Gavi secretariat will host and administer the COVAX Facility, the umbrella mechanism to which 78 countries have already submitted … Read More

Keeping Routine Immunization Going During COVID-19 in Indonesia

Indonesia

The Jakarta local government implemented large-scale social restriction, such as closing public spaces, restricting public transport and limiting travel to and from the rest of the country during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this Q&A that Gavi conducted with Dr Vertando Halim, Coordinator of Expanded Program on Immunization, Jakarta, Indonesia, we hear about the challenges the Jakarta government faced … Read More

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Sabin’s Social and Behavioral Interventions for Vaccination Acceptance Small Grants Program Awarding $25,000 for Intervention Research Projects for Increasing Vaccination Confidence

The Sabin Vaccine Institute is proud to announce its second iteration of the Social and Behavioral Interventions for Vaccination Acceptance Small Grants Program. Under this program, grants of $25,000 each will be awarded for intervention research projects, which can be conducted over a period of 10 months beginning in September 2020. The primary goal of … Read More

Immunization Status in the Context of COVID-19 – Brief Survey to Help WHO, UNICEF, Gavi and the Boost Immunization Professional Community Understand Current Disruptions and Recovery Plans During COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 has affected immunization programs around the world. The pulse poll done in April suggested that immunization delivery disruptions were widespread through all continents. That information was used to revise/develop global guidance and plan for upcoming webinars. However, the situation changes rapidly. We are asking for your help to better understand the current disruptions and … Read More

LNCT Member Newsletter May 2020

LNCT Updates Materials from Special Peer Learning Discussion Group on COVID-19 Impact on Immunization Programs Available Online On April 30, LNCT organized a special peer learning discussion group for countries to discuss the pandemic’s impact on immunization programs and responses across countries. Several LNCT countries – Georgia, India, and Indonesia – shared their current experiences … Read More