Gavi and the UK can turn a new page together

An Expert View from  the new chief executive of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, Sania Nishtar.

The last time there was a transition of power in the UK to the Labour Party was 27 years ago in 1997. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, did not yet exist. Globally, that year more than 10 million children under-five died from vaccine-preventable diseases like pneumonia, diarrhoea and measles – double the number of deaths of children under-five that we see today. And there were more than 5,000 cases of wild poliovirus recorded in 50 countries in 1997, compared with a handful of cases restricted to just two countries today.