News and Resources

News and resources

Five ways meningitis vaccines are saving lives

01 Oct 2024

Vaccines that tackle the causes of meningitis are crucial to the 2030 goal to eliminate the disease – here’s how.

Armed with vaccine, families in Benin take the fight to malaria

17 Sep 2024

215,900 doses of malaria vaccine began to roll out in Benin in April – and they’ve been welcomed with open arms, finds reporter Edna Fleure.

Strengthening Gavi's replenishment with IFFIm

29 Aug 2024

Funding IFFIm allows countries to make an immediate, significant impact on Gavi’s mission, while ensuring this innovative finance mechanism continues to benefit Gavi, donors, and partners.

Lifesaving immunisation: progress made possible by IFFIm

29 Aug 2024

A child in need of a life-saving vaccine cannot afford to wait. IFFIm employs a frontloading model that enables Gavi to protect people, communities and the world faster by bringing future aid forward to have an immediate impact.

IFFIm Board of Directors welcomes three new members

01 Jul 2024

The International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm) is pleased to announce the appointment of three distinguished new members to its Board of Directors. Eila Kreivi and Rachel Turner will join the board in July 2024, and Jeffrey Diehl will join in September 2024.

Malaria bites: health workers in 80 countries share their experiences

12 Jun 2024

As two malaria vaccines begins to roll out in many countries, health workers reflect on their experiences of the parasitic killer.

Veterans of Ghana’s immunisation programme look back

28 May 2024

At the World Health Assembly of 1974, countries committed to a programme of routine childhood vaccination. In 1978, Ghana put its pledge into practice. The years since have seen profound, if not always linear, progress.