{"id":257171,"date":"2020-06-05T03:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T07:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=257171"},"modified":"2020-06-05T03:00:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T07:00:54","slug":"who-welcomes-crucial-new-funding-for-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/06\/05\/who-welcomes-crucial-new-funding-for-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO welcomes crucial new funding for vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_216400\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-216400\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/vaccination-2725065_1920-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-216400 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/vaccination-2725065_1920-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/vaccination-2725065_1920-1.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/vaccination-2725065_1920-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/vaccination-2725065_1920-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/vaccination-2725065_1920-1-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-216400\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The\u00a0new\u00a0pledges will enable Gavi to protect the next generation and reduce disease inequality by reaching an additional 300 million children with vaccines by 2025.\u00a0 (Pixabay Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WHO welcomes funding commitments made at today\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gavi.org\/investing-gavi\/resource-mobilisation-process\/gavis-3rd-donor-pledging-conference-june-2020\" data-sf-ec-immutable=\"\">Global Vaccine Summit<\/a>,\u00a0hosted virtually by the UK government. The Summit is Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance\u2019s third pledging conference and follows the successful Berlin summit in January 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0new\u00a0pledges will enable Gavi to protect the next generation and reduce disease inequality by reaching an additional 300 million children with vaccines by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to vaccines, hundreds of millions of deaths have been prevented. Polio has been pushed to the brink of eradication, and just in the past few years new vaccines have become available for Ebola and malaria,\u201d said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut vaccines only realize their true power when they are deployed to protect the poorest and most vulnerable. The COVID-19 pandemic is unravelling many of the gains we have made, with vaccination campaigns for polio, cholera, measles, diphtheria, and meningitis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bold funding commitments mean that the Gavi Alliance will be better able to maintain immunization\u00a0in lower-income countries, mitigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0They will also help strengthen health systems.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic\u00a0is\u00a0a sobering reminder of how much\u00a0individual health depends on collective health and the critical role that vaccines play in keeping the global population safe and healthy.\u00a0The Summit also highlighted how important a\u00a0safe, effective and equitably accessible vaccine will be in controlling COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The Global Vaccine Summit marks\u00a020\u00a0years since Gavi was founded.\u00a0Dr Tedros added: \u201cWe join Gavi in celebrating the collective success of this great Alliance. These pledges are not just an investment in the Alliance of which we are a very proud partner; they are an advance on our shared vision of a healthier, safer and fairer world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO welcomes funding commitments made at today\u2019s\u00a0Global Vaccine Summit,\u00a0hosted virtually by the UK government. The Summit is Gavi, the Vaccine &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":216400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257172,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257171\/revisions\/257172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}