by Jennifer Rigby

London: global Vaccine Organization Gavi there is a possibility to look around $11.9 billion A resolution was passed on Thursday calling on governments and institutions to fund vaccination efforts around the world. The poorest country Board documents reviewed by Reuters showed the incidents occurred over the past five years.

The amount will be finalised at a meeting in Paris on Thursday, where donors will make pledges for the organisation’s 2026-2030 plan.

A separately funded $1 billion scheme to boost vaccine production in Africa, the African Vaccine Manufacturing Accelerator, will also launch on Thursday.

Gavi helps low-income countries purchase vaccines to protect them against deadly diseases. Children More than 1,000 people have been vaccinated as a result of Gavi’s work since 2020.

Gavi Chief Executive Sania Nishtar said the group aims to move more quickly and make more vaccines available. This will include expanding the introduction of the malaria vaccine, which began in Cameroon this year, as well as stepping up regular programmes for diseases such as measles, which have been left behind by the Covid-19 pandemic.

In an interview on Wednesday ahead of the meeting, Nishtar told Reuters that the global immunization coalition “wants to reach the largest number of children, and protect them from the largest number of diseases in the shortest time.”

Nishtar said the amounts set out in the board’s documents were not yet final, and added that this was a challenging time for global health, with aid budgets around the world under pressure due to demands ranging from conflict to climate change.

“Gavi has never had to compromise,” he said. “On the one hand, there is a wide portfolio of vaccines available. On the other hand, we are looking at an environment where donors are short on resources.”

But he said he is optimistic the organization will raise the necessary funds.

Gavi plans to expand its work in the coming years, for example by establishing a stockpile of the ampox vaccine. It may also add a dengue vaccine to its programme as climate change puts more countries at risk of epidemics. It will also set up a “Day Zero” $500 million pandemic response fund for rapid action on major outbreaks.

(Reporting by Jennifer Rigby; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)