Dear GAVI, Please Let Us Access Your Discounted Vaccine Prices
1,386 views · Published 23 April 2013 · 0:44 · Indexed 23 September 2026
Channel: Doctors Without Borders / MSF-USA · 2013 · Nonprofits & Activism
The price to vaccinate a child has risen by 2,700 percent over the last decade. Countries where Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) works will lose their donor support to pay for vaccines soon, and will have to decide which killer diseases they can and can't afford to protect their children against. MSF is asking the GAVI Alliance to open up their discounted vaccine pricing to humanitarian actors that are often best placed to respond to vaccinating people in crisis. Read more here - http://bit.ly/117Wxy0 The GAVI Alliance is an international public-private partnership whose stated mission is to increase access to immunization for children in poor countries. GAVI co-finances the cost of vaccines with qualifying countries. Participants include governments of developing and donor countries, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry, research and technical agencies, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other philanthropic organizations.
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