GAVI launches new vaccine, but funding gap remains

News December 17, 2010

GAVI has announced the launch of a brand new pneumonia vaccine in Nicaragua, just a few months after the drug was introduced in rich countries.

But the vaccine agency has a daunting USD 3.7 billion funding gap, a large part of which is needed to finance the distribution of pneumonia vaccine in dozens of other developing countries.

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