Donors commit $4.3 billion in vaccine funding to achieve historic milestone for GAVI Alliance

Major public and private donors achieved a milestone in global health by committing funding to immunize more than 250 million of the world's poorest children against life-threatening diseases by 2015 and prevent more than four million premature deaths at a conference organized in London, UK, yesterday by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI).

Donors committed $4.3 billion at the first pledging conference held by the GAVI Alliance. This exceeds an initial target of $3.7 billion, enabling GAVI to reach more children faster than planned and to accelerate the introduction of new vaccines. A portion of the pledges are conditional upon GAVI raising additional funds from new donors in the future. These pledges bring GAVI's total available resources for the period 2011 to 2015 to $7.6 billion.

UK and Gates Foundation largest donors