GAVI Watch: Media Releases/Statements  [to 14 December 2013]
http://www.gavialliance.org/library/news/statements/

:: Pneumococcal vaccine to protect more than a million children in Afghanistan from leading child killer  7 December 2013
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Afghanistan is to begin vaccinating more than 1.2 million children against pneumococcal disease every year, President Hamid Karzai announced today.

As part of the Government of Afghanistan’s ongoing efforts to improve the health of its children, life-saving pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) will be given to all infants under one year of age. The children will be protected against pneumococcal disease, the leading cause of pneumonia, which accounts for 25% of deaths in children under five years of age in Afghanistan.

With the support of the GAVI Alliance and its partners WHO and UNICEF, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health will begin introducing PCV into routine immunisation programmes and the vaccine will be available for free at all health facilities across the country.

:: GAVI Alliance pays tribute to Nelson Mandela  06 December 2013
Following the death of Nelson Mandela, Dagfinn Høybråten, Chair of the GAVI Alliance Board, and Dr Seth Berkley, CEO of the GAVI Alliance, issued statements