Decade of Vaccines Collaboration
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 New York City, New York by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), UNICEF and the World Health Organization.1)
History
In January 2010, 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.2)