Bill & Melinda Gates Children's Vaccine Program

The Bill & Melinda Gates Children's Vaccine Program (CVP) was an American funding vehicle focused on increasing the speed of development and distribution of vaccines to children worldwide. It was administered by PATH.

History

The CVP was launched on December 2, 1998 with a five-year $100 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.1)

Within its first year, the CVP had “fundamentally and profoundly altered the landscape of global public health,” according to then-Director Mark Kane. It served as a founding member of GAVI, and helped form the Global Fund for Children's Vaccines in 1999 through a $750 million grant, alongside the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and GAVI.

Several more significant grants were issued; the CVP gave the World Health Organization $11.25 million for vaccine initiatives, $10 million to UNICEF for “global advocacy for immunization country-level immunization programs,” and $3.7 million to the World Bank to “support initiatives to include immunization programming in bank loans.”

The CVP collaborated with the National Institutes of Health to test the “field efficacy” of a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in The Gambia.

Organization

Partners

1)
Kane, M. (2000, January). Year One In Review. Children’s Vaccine Program. https://web.archive.org/web/20000903064454/http://www.childrensvaccine.org/files/CVP-Year-One.pdf
2)
Members. Allied Vaccine Group. Retrieved February 6, 2001, from https://web.archive.org/web/20010206034519/http://vaccine.org/members.htm
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