Luanda – Angolan minister of Health, Sílvia Lutucuta, is representing the country at the retreat of the Global Alliance for Vaccines (GAVI) Board of Directors, taking place from Wednesday to Thursday, in the city of Évian-les-Bains, France.
The event of the multilateral organisation that manages vaccines around the world, aims to define the key elements of its new 6.0 strategy for the 2025/2030 period.
The new strategy will build on the Gavi Alliance's success in immunising more than a billion children over more than 20 years. In response to major contextual changes in the world, Gavi 6.0 offers new opportunities and significant impact.
In March 2023, the Angolan Head of State, João Lourenço, took part in the Global Conference on the Impact of Vaccination, organised by GAVI in the Kingdom of Spain.
The health organisation, chaired by Portugal's Durão Barroso since 2020, is a public-private partnership that helps vaccinate half of the world's children against some of the deadliest diseases.
Since its creation in 2000, GAVI has helped immunise more than 760 million children, thus preventing more than 13 million deaths and halving child mortality in 73 developing countries.
The organisation brings together governments from both developing countries and donors such as the World Health Organisation, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the World Bank and the United Nations.
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