The Lancet Infectious Disease
Apr 2009   Volume 9  Number 4   Pages 203 – 264
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/issue/current

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Vaccine investments raise millions to save children’s lives
Kathryn Senior
In March, HSBC, a leading UK bank, offered innovative vaccine-themed investments to individuals and institutional investors in the UK, to provide additional funding to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) for its childhood immunisation programme. Heike Reichelt from the treasury of the World Bank (Washington DC, USA) confirms that “the investments, issued by the International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm) and rated triple-A, are expected to raise at least UK£50 million.