====== Decade of Vaccines Collaboration ======

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The **Decade of Vaccines (DoV) Collaboration** is a supra-national non-governmental initiative "to increase coordination across the international vaccine community and create a [[Global Vaccine Action Plan]]." It was launched in December 2010 in [[united_states_of_america:New York:New York City]], [[united_states_of_america:New York]] by the [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]], [[National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases]] (NIAID), [[UNICEF]] and the [[World Health Organization]].((Robert, M., Hasan, H., Moen, C., & Billet, C. (2010, December 2). //Global Health Leaders Launch Decade of Vaccines Collaboration.// World Health Organization. https://archive.ph/HUZU4))

===== History =====

In January 2010, [[Bill Gates|Bill]] and [[Melinda Gates]] called for the following ten years to be a "decade of vaccines." This was cited as the basis for the creation of the DoV Collaboration.((Robert, M., Hasan, H., Moen, C., & Billet, C. (2010, December 2). //Global Health Leaders Launch Decade of Vaccines Collaboration.// World Health Organization. https://archive.ph/HUZU4))

===== External links =====

  * [[https://covidtruthinitiative.ca/en/Organizations/Decade-of-Vaccines-Collaboration|COVID Truth Initiative]]