United States and Norway will co-host a meeting of GAVI Alliance donors and partners on 6 October 2010. The high-level meeting of GAVI Alliance donors, potential donors and partners in New York on 6 October “to build on GAVI’s cost-effective success in preventing 5.4 million deaths in its first 10 years.” GAVI Alliance partners “will agree on action to avert an estimated 4.2 million future deaths through immunisation. The meeting will also set the outline for a pledging meeting in 2011. GAVI needs to raise US$4.3 billion to scale-up immunisation programmes between 2010 and 2015.”