Public-private global health partnership
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Primary funder and coordinator of HPV scale-up in low-income countries
Cervical cancer kills roughly one African woman every seven minutes. On April 29, 2026, Burundi became the latest country to give its girls a shot at avoiding that fate, launching a national human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program with backing from Gavi, UNICEF, and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Updated Apr 29
Primary funder of measles vaccination in lower-income countries
In 2000, measles killed roughly 480,000 people a year in Africa, mostly children under five. A quarter-century of sustained vaccination — more than half a billion routine doses and 622 million supplemental campaign doses across 44 countries — has cut that toll in half, saving an estimated 19.5 million lives. Three sub-Saharan nations have now eliminated the disease entirely, a milestone once considered decades away.
Updated Apr 21
Funding vaccines and operational support for the emergency campaign
Bangladesh was on track to eliminate measles by 2026. Instead, the country is fighting its worst outbreak in a decade—over 9,000 suspected cases across 56 of 64 districts, with more than 140 children dead in six weeks. On April 12, an emergency vaccination campaign expanded into Dhaka and three other major cities, targeting 1.2 million children with support from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO), and Gavi, the global vaccine alliance.
Updated Apr 12
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