Immunisation as a matter of justice (GAVI alliance)

• International organization that works at saving children’s lives and protecting peoples health by increasing access to immunization in poor countries. With funding from governments across the world it takes forward its agenda of making vaccines available to children assisting developing nations to gain access to vaccines at affordable rates.
• GAVI alliance board approved 5 year strategy to ensure the alliance delivers on its overall mission from 2011-2015. Full implementation of the 4 strategic goals will see GAVI immunize about 250 million children by 2015 and prevent nearly 4 million future deaths. This include the roll out of pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines to protect against the world’s 2 main child killers, pneumonia and diarrhea, as well as sustained progress in providing the pentavalent, meningitis and yellow fever vaccines.
• Recently India given permission to roll out the pentavalent(combo protection against diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP), hepatitis-B, Hemophilia, influenza type b)vaccine throughout the country.  Advisory council for GAVI alliance created to get people from all sectors to discuss how they help out these issues There is need to create demand for vaccine and same time deal with rumors of side effects without validation
• There are other issues of routine immunization which is more complicated routine, injections which need for more trained health workers, and people have to come to a facility instead door to door as in case of polio. The alliance has approved a grant of $100 million for India to work on improving delivery of vaccines and focus on least performing districts.
• The rollout of pentavalent is hot topic of debate in India as there are claims that children died after being vaccinated. As there is component in vaccine which can cause fever in children but same is true with older vaccine. One of the key ways to take this fight through National Rural Health mission by government of India.