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How the World Bank built trust in vaccine bonds

21 Oct 2022

Interview with Doris Herrera-Pol and Heike Reichelt.

A mountain to climb: often – too often – the “last mile” is a health worker’s extra mile

04 Oct 2022

Michelline Uwimana treks through the mountainous terrain of rural Uganda come rain or shine. The walk is gruelling, but the alternative – communities going without vital healthcare – would be worse.

Local solutions to local problems: Reaching zero-dose children in Chad’s nomadic communities

06 Sep 2022

An innovative approach that combines children and animal vaccinations is helping to boost coverage amongst zero-dose children in Chad’s nomadic communities.

Bangladesh’s success in dealing with COVID-19

01 Sep 2022

A quick response, early drive for vaccines, proper campaign management and mass participation have helped Bangladesh fully vaccinate more than 70% of its population against COVID-19.

Dealing with diarrhoea: Nigeria introduces rotavirus vaccine into its immunisation plan

30 Aug 2022

Nigeria has the second highest number of rotavirus deaths in the world. The historic introduction of the vaccine into its routine immunisation system aims to change that.

IFFIm returns to UK market with £250 million bond supporting Gavi immunisation programmes

19 Jul 2022

IFFIm today priced a £250 million 3-year, fixed-rate bond that will provide immediately available funding for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.

New paper "follows the money” using vaccine bonds as case study

14 Jul 2022

In a paper published in the journal Economy and Space, Sarah Hughes-McLure of the University of Cambridge proposes a method of critical financial analysis, and cites IFFIm vaccine bonds as a case study.