Category: Quotes

All the quotes from the 2011 Progress Report in one easy place

  • Bill Gates quote

    Vaccines are one of the most cost-effective investments we can make in global health.

    Bill Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

  • Child health quote

    Vaccination is an essential cornerstone for child health and development. So by investing in vaccination, we invest in development.

    Dr Guelaye Sall, paediatrician, Senegal

  • Co-financing quote

    Vaccinating our children is essential if we want to offer them a better future, and a chance to lead a productive life. We are proud to be co-financing.

    Adama Traoré, Minister of Health, Burkina Faso

  • Cost effective quote

    I know that immunisation is one of the most cost-effective investments for the health and development of a child. The benefits go much beyond the medical – they are also economic and societal.

    Dr Dorothy O. Esangbedo, President, Paediatric Association of Nigeria

  • CSO quote

    My district is very lucky to have a CSO coming to work with our mothers to ensure children are fully protected from preventable diseases. We have to sustain this initiative and scale it up to more communities.

    Honourable Foster Adoh, District Chief Executive, Twifo Hemang Lower Denkyera District, Ghana

  • CSO quote 2

    One goal we all share is to prevent disease and death to improve the lives and health of children. Vaccines are a means to this end, and should be offered to all who need them.

    Dr Sabrina Bakeera-Kitaka, paediatrician and GAVI CSO Steering Committee member

  • Gender quote

    It’s encouraging that GAVI supports countries to overcome gender barriers as well as closing equity gaps – ensuring results and access to vaccines for all.

    Gunilla Carlsson, Minister for International Development Cooperation, Sweden

  • Ghana quote

    Routine immunization is reaching more Ghanaian children than ever before… No surprise that child mortality in our country has almost halved since 1990.

    Joseph Yieleh Chireh, Minister of Health, Ghana

  • Goals quote

    Achieving our goal depends not only on increased donations, but also upon a healthy vaccine market.

    Dagfinn Høybråten, Chair of the GAVI Alliance Board

  • Health worker quote

    I know about vaccinations from community health workers and health extension workers. They remind me when to go, and I can ask them if I have any questions.

    Margaret Teshome, mother, Ethiopia

  • HPV vaccine

    GAVI’s decision to include the HPV vaccine is a visionary investment that will promote equity, the health of women and development.

    Julio Frenk, Dean, Harvard School of Public Health and Chair, Global Task Force on Expanded Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries

  • IFFIm quote

    The case for further investment through IFFIm is strong.

    IFFIm evaluation, 2011

  • Immunization fact

    Over half of the 30% drop in child mortality since 1990 is attributable to immunization.

    Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General, WHO

  • la Caixa quote

    We hope ‘la Caixa’ will serve as a model for many other private institutions to step up and join GAVI.

    Her Royal Highness the Infanta Cristina of Spain, Director of the International Cooperation Programme for “la Caixa” Foundation

  • Meningitis A quote

    People are always apprehensive, scared ahead of the meningitis season. They never know what will happen… The new vaccine is a golden opportunity to protect our people.

    Muhammad Sani Adamu, Head of Accelerated Disease Control, National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Nigeria

  • Platform quote

    Healthy children need healthy mothers. To give a child a bright start into life, a package of good nutrition, hygiene, vaccination and health care must be available to the mother and her baby.

    Pierrette Vu Thi, UNICEF Representative, the Democratic Republic of the Congo

  • Swedish assessment quote

    GAVI’s efforts to shape the vaccine market… have led to the arrival on the market of new products adapted to the needs of developing countries, at prices that are more in line with these countries’ ability to pay.

    Swedish assessment of the GAVI Alliance, 2011

  • TAP quote

    GAVI vigorously condemns any misuse of its funding. Children’s lives are jeopardised when GAVI funds are not used as they are intended.

    Helen Evans, Deputy CEO of the GAVI Alliance

  • UK aid review

    GAVI has a clear and critical role, delivering some of the most cost-effective health interventions. It demonstrates tangible results and is innovative. It takes a country-led approach and is very transparent.

    UK Multilateral Aid Review, 2011

  • UNICEF quote

    Together, we are creating a market that provides the poorest nations with the lowest prices… a market that better matches supply and demand and assures greater supply security.

    Tony Lake, Executive Director, UNICEF