Agnès Binagwaho, minister of health of Rwanda, discusses the progressive health measures being taken in her country. Every night I go to bed knowing that the health of the children of Rwanda and of the world is better. This is what moves me forward every day. This week, I am very proud, because Rwanda was
By GAVI Alliance Deputy CEO Helen Evans. For more blog posts by Helen, go here. I am looking forward to participating in the 2012 World Cancer Leaders’ Summit, to be held in Montreal, Canada on August 27. This will be an opportunity to take stock of where the world is with regards to cancer prevention
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Last week, I sat down with GAVI’s CEO Seth Berkley while he was in DC. He had so much interesting stuff to say that we’ve broken our interview with him into 2 blog posts. Below, in our first installment, we talk about what defines success for GAVI, how GAVI’s work provides a platform for other
ONE members at the GAVI conference last year One year ago today, as our colleagues in London held signs about vaccines alongside Bill Gates, we were glued to our computer screens in DC, waiting for donors’ pledges to come in for GAVI. GAVI had estimated that it needed $3.7 billion in additional money to help
The great, the good and the glamorous are gathering in Washington D.C., this week to talk about some really big issues affecting the world’s poorest and most vulnerable children and adults. Nobel prize winner President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and Malawi’s President Joyce Banda top the bill at the Frontiers in Development Conference from
Last week, I sat down with GAVI’s CEO Seth Berkley while he was in DC. He had so much interesting stuff to say that we’ve broken our interview into two blog posts (part 1 is here). In this second installment, I asked him a few more personal questions about his most memorable travel, why he
ONE blogger Bryant Shannon just came back from a trip to Ghana with ONE. He is a public health research scholar for the US Fulbright Program. Read more of his updates on his personal blog. Last year, along with thousands of other ONE members, I took part in ONE’s campaign to convince the Obama Administration
ONE blogger C.C. Chapman just came back from a trip to Ghana with ONE. Read more of updates on his personal blog. I may have successfully uploaded all my photos from my recent trip to Ghana, but I still have to go through and assemble a travel video. Thankfully the good folks at the GAVI
ONE blogger Amy Graff just returned from a trip to Ghana with ONE. This piece was originally printed on The BabyCenter Blog. Last week, Ghana was the first African country to roll out two new vaccines simultaneously to protect children from the continent’s deadliest infant diseases, rotavirus and pneumonia. Everyone in this country was celebrating.
By Awa Marie Coll-Seck, minister of Health and Social Action of Senegal, and Guillaume Grosso, director of ONE France. This piece, translated from French, was originally published on Huffington Post France. For World Immunization Week, all global health and development actors decided to take part in the mobilization initiated by the World Health Organization to
Guest blog post from the GAVI Alliance Today marks a milestone for Ghana, with the West African nation making an unprecedented step towards saving the lives of its children from two of the biggest child killers in the country, through the simultaneous introduction of two new vaccines. Pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines will protect the children
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