Great news that Gavi (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation), revelling in the windfall it received at its funding conference in London earlier this year ($4.3bn, which is $600m more than it asked for)
I took this quote from a Guardian article, which focused on GAVI’s upcoming attempt to vaccinate girls in poor countries against cervical cancer. But my question is, in a global economy that is in distress, should we truly be excited that GAVI was given US$ 600 million more than they asked for? That is nearly $1 billion that they have been given but not planned for. With the upcoming Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, I think we need to ask how effective is this? Is there no other place this money could be channeled?
