Immunization Update: Archive

Immunization Update #16 (12/18/03)
Headlines:  Sarbib joins GAVI Board...Update on Bank lending...Breaking news:  more Bank support for polio eradication in India...Crunch time:  financial sustainability at country level...Reaching the MDGs in Burkina Faso...What could a pneumococcal vaccine do?...Revamped Bank immunization website...Special mention and recommended reading

Immunization Update #15 (7/8/03)
Headlines:  Early returns on financial sustainability of immunization...Latest estimates of mortality from vaccine-preventable diseases...Health sector reform and immunization: the case of Burkina Faso...Bank signs autodisable syringe declaration...Around the Bank...GAVI launches Alliance database...Special mention...Recommended reading

Immunization Update #14 (3/18/03)
Headlines:  What is a Polio "buy-down"?; Measles and the MDGs; Is benchmarking for you?; Around the Bank; Contracting with NGOs works!; Bank lending for HNP and immunization; Special mention; Recommended reading

Immunization Update #13 (12/11/02)
Headlines:  Polio: now or never...PRSP/HIPC snippet...The Rotavirus vaccine story...Around the Bank regions...Latest on auto-disable syringes ...Who needs an Immunization Financing Database?...What is the Vaccine Provision Project?...Special mention...Recommended reading...

Immunization Update #12 (10/10/02)
Headlines:  PRSPs/HIPC and Immunization...Lending for Immunization...Vaccine market primer...Bank work on Immunization and Poverty...Special mention...Recommended reading...

Immunization Update #11 (6/14/02)
Headlines:  The big picture...The Regions report many new projects with a substantial focus on immunization...Injection safety...HIV/AIDS Vaccines...Financial sustainability...Special mention...Recommended reading

Immunization Update #10 (2/27/02)
Headlines:  PHTG finances immunization and public health work in regions...News from the regions...GAVI at two years...the Hidden Epidemic:drugs and injection safety...Immunization financing...Special mention...Recommended reading...

Immunization Update #9 (12/17/01)
Headlines:  Immunization gains from PRSPs/HIPC...Action in the regions...Polio progress...GAVI news...Immunization lending ...Special mention...Recommended reading...

Immunization Update #8 (9/28/01)
Headlines:  What's coming out of the box?...How does the Bank support immunization?...Update on Turkey...Focus on injection safety...Special mention...Recommended reading...

Immunization Update #7 (6/29/01)
Headlines:  GAVI milestones...Increased action around the Bank: Bolivia, South Asia, Togo, Turkey...Bank lending update...Out of the Box/other news from the Financing Task Force...Lost ARK?...Special mention...Recommended reading...

Immunization Update #6 (3/23/01)
Headlines:  GAVI/The Fund (Global Fund for Children's Vaccines) delivers...Happenings around the Bank...Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) news...Polio update...International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) raises another $100 million...Spotlight on Haemophilus Influenzae Vaccine Type B (Hib)...Special mention...Recommended reading...

Immunization Update #5 (1/11/01)
Headlines:  Why worry about injection safety?...Action in the regions...News from GAVI and IAVI...Polio Update...Special Mention...Recommended reading...

Immunization Update #4 (10/6/00)
Headlines:  Communicable disease is catching on at the Bank...Immunization action in the Regions...New from the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI)...Polio eradication update...Special mention...Recommended reading...

Immunization Update #3 (7/10/00)
Headlines:  Regions' fast start on Millennium Immunization Offer with $850K from Gates...Too many acronyms? - We are the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI)!...Award of first grants from Global Fund for Children's Vaccines this Summer...Tanzania...Polio eradication update...Special mention: India immunization team, LAC Region, etc...Recommended Reading, including polio as a platform for Vitamin A...

Immunization Update #2 (4/3/00)
Headlines:  Immunization action continues apace among client countries and donors...Who is doing what around the Bank?...Going fast: $1 million from trust fund to be allocated in April for immunization operations...Four "recommended reads" and five web sites you might want to pick from...Immunization one-liners...Feedback on Update #1...

Immunization Update #1 (1/22/00)
Headlines:  Why do we need an immunization update?...What’s the fuss about Davos and Immunization?...Is the Millennium Immunization Offer one you can’t refuse? (see below)...Who is doing what on immunization around the Bank?...HIV/AIDS: What is IAVI and why should we care?...One-liners...