Africa-Press – Angola. The President of the Republic, João Lourenço, left Luanda this Monday, bound for the Kingdom of Spain, in order to participate in the Global Conference on the Impact of Vaccination, taking place from 13 to 15 June.
The Head of State was invited to participate in the event, promoted by GAVI (Global Alliance for Vaccines), taking into account his “very prominent” participation in vaccination against Covid-19 in Africa.
The President of the Republic should take the floor at this meeting of the Global Alliance for Vaccines, according to a note from the Press Secretary of the Presidential Palace.
The event will also have the participation, among other entities, of representatives of multilateral organizations, governments, civil society, companies and universities.
The aim of the meeting is to assess the impact achieved by Gavi (an initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) from January 2021 until now, a period in which the initiative faced the double challenge of supporting, with its partners, routine immunization and respond to the needs of Covid-19.
Data from Gavi indicate that, since 2021, the initiative has provided more than 1.9 billion doses of Covid-19 to 146 countries, through COVAX, and supported 32 immunization campaigns in response to outbreaks that occurred in the year 2022 .
The Vaccines Alliance has also revitalized its immunization program against HPV (prevents against cancer), and should support the launch of the first vaccine against malaria in the world, later this year.
Since its creation in 2000, Gavi – Alliance of Vaccines has helped to immunize more than 981 million children and prevented more than 16.2 million deaths, which has helped to reduce, by half, child mortality in 73 countries of low income.
Gavi also plays a key role in improving global health security by supporting health systems and funding global stockpiles of Ebola, cholera and yellow fever vaccines.
After two decades, Gavi is focused on protecting, in particular, children who have not received any vaccine.
The Global Alliance for Vaccines brings together developing country and donor governments, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank, vaccine industries, technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private sector partners.
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