News and Resources

News and resources

Mentors, mothers and mavens: the women who inspired IFFIm’s board members

03 Apr 2023

IFFIm is governed by a diverse board in global finance and development. In 2021, three new members joined, giving IFFIm a majority female board.

IFFIm Board charts plans for 2023

03 Apr 2023

The first IFFIm board meeting of the year set the stage for reviewing and recognising the surge of activity at IFFIm over the last two years — US$ 1.8 billion in Gavi funding and US$ 1.8 billion bond issues.

Canada pledges C$ 125 million to IFFIm

17 Mar 2023

Canada expands its commitment to childhood immunisation as 11th donor to IFFIm

Rotavirus vaccines return to an outbreak-hit county in Kenya

16 Mar 2023

Supply chain disruption triggered a season of vaccine stockouts and sickness in Nakuru county. Now, health workers and parents are rushing to get their vulnerable babies protected.

How Uzbekistan scrambled to stay polio-free - and succeeded

17 Feb 2023

Still endemic to neighbouring Afghanistan, polio was suddenly resurging in next-door Tajikistan. Uzbekistan’s health system needed to act fast, or risk the futures of its children.

Curbing measles in Kenya’s conflict-troubled Mandera County

31 Jan 2023

Vaccine vials, clued-in parents, dedicated health workers... and armed police: VaccinesWork finds out what it takes to rein in a measles outbreak in Kenya’s north.

Navigating rough waters: reaching the zero-dose children of Manoka Island

23 Jan 2023

The Manoka Health District, a cluster of hard-to-reach islets in coastal Cameroon, is an immunisation blind spot: more than 90% of kids under two here have never had a single vaccine. Dr Nchinjoh plans to change that.