The GAVI Alliance released a summary of actions and next steps from its meeting of donors and partners in early October, including a plan for its first pledging conference in June 2011 “to ensure that the global health partnership has the necessary funding to introduce new vaccines against the two biggest killers of children – pneumonia and diarrhoea.” Mary Robinson, Chair of the GAVI Alliance Board, commented, “The right to health is a basic human right and the inequity that exists between those children who are lucky enough to be vaccinated and those who are not is shocking. Every one of us shares a collective responsibility to make a difference. Despite the financial crisis, let’s surprise everyone next June by ensuring that GAVI gets the funding it needs. GAVI’s mission is too important to fail.”

http://www.gavialliance.org/media_centre/statements/call_for_action.php