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June 21, 2002

INTERNATIONAL IMMUNIZATION NEWS

"Global Vaccine Alliance Cites Progress in Helping Poorest Nations" Agence France Presse (www.afp.com/english/home) (06/20/02)

The Global Alliance for Vaccination and Immunization (GAVI) has collected nearly $960 billion dollars since its formation in 1999 and said that funds were already being provided to 60 of the world's poorest nations--80 percent of the countries the organization initially targeted.  Bosnia-Hercegovina, Comoros, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, North Korea, and Somalia are six more countries whose application for aid was approved during GAVI's recent board meeting this week held at the Pasteur Institute in France.  According to GAVI, childhood inoculations remain inaccessible to nearly 30 million newborns worldwide and that at least three million die from vaccine-preventable diseases at the rate of nearly 8,000 per day.

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