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-====== GAVI ======
+====== Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance ======
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-**GAVI**, officially **Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance**((https://www.devex.com/news/the-evolution-of-global-health-s-best-kept-secret-84782)) is a public–private global health partnership with the goal of increasing access to immunization in poor countries.((https://www.theguardian.com/society/sarah-boseley-global-health/2011/nov/17/vaccines-pharmaceuticals-industry))
+**Gavi**, officially **Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance**((https://www.devex.com/news/the-evolution-of-global-health-s-best-kept-secret-84782)) is a public–private global health partnership with the goal of increasing access to immunization in poor countries.((https://www.theguardian.com/society/sarah-boseley-global-health/2011/nov/17/vaccines-pharmaceuticals-industry))
 The organization was founded by [[Bill Gates]] through the [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]].
-===== Affiliations =====
+===== History =====
+==== Founding ====
+Gavi was founded by its original name, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations, in 1999, and launched in 2000.((//GAVI – The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations.// (2010, December 11). World Health Organization. https://web.archive.org/web/20220405071444/https://www.who.int/workforcealliance/members_partners/member_list/gavi/en/)) It was formed as a successor to the [[Children’s Vaccine Initiative]], which was itself founded following the [[World Summit for Children]] held in [[united_states_of_america:New York]] in September 1990.((Caddell, A. (1997). //The Children’s Vaccine Initiative.// Africa Health, 20(1), 15. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12348372/)) [[United States]] President [[Bill Clinton]] announced a $50 million investment into the [[Global Fund for Children's Vaccines]] "to support GAVI's work." Early board members included [[Carol Bellamy]], then-Executive Director of [[UNICEF]].((Martin, J.-F., & Jacobs, L. (2000, September). //Global Vaccine Fund Commits $150 Million in Vaccines and Funding over Five Years to 13 Developing Countries.// Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. https://web.archive.org/web/20210618203713/https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Ideas/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2000/09/The-Global-Fund-for-Childrens-Vaccines))
+===== Organization =====
+==== Partners ====
 Gavi's core partners are the [[World Health Organization]] (WHO), the [[World Bank]], and [[UNICEF]].((Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. //About our Alliance.// Retrieved December 3, 2021, from https://archive.ph/nXIjF))
+==== Board of Directors ====
+^  Board of Directors((//Board members.// (2022, July 5). Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. https://web.archive.org/web/20220715051315/https://www.gavi.org/governance/gavi-board/members))  ^^
+^ Name  ^ Affiliation(s)  ^
+| [[Aamer Ikram]]  | [[Pakistan]], [[Somalia]]  |
+| [[Afsaneh Beschloss]]  | [[RockCreek Group]]  |
+| [[Alaa Murabit]]  | [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]]  |
+| [[An Vermeersch]]  | [[pharmaceutical_companies:GlaxoSmithKline]], [[International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations]], [[McKinsey & Company]]  |
+| [[Anne Schuchat]]  | [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC)  |
+| [[Anahit Avanesyan]]  | [[Ministry of Health of Armenia]], [[Arpharmacia CJSC]], [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia]], [[State Reserves Agency]], [[Democracy Today]]  |
+| [[Atul Gawande]]  | [[United States Agency for International Development]] (USAID), [[Brigham and Women’s Hospital]], [[Harvard Medical School]], [[Harvard T.H. Chan School of Global Health]], [[Ariadne Labs]], [[Lifebox]], [[CIC Health]], [[COVID-19 Advisory Board]], [[Haven]], [[The New Yorker]], [[National Academy of Medicine]], [[AcademyHealth]], [[MacArthur Foundation]]  |
+| [[Awa Marie Coll Seck]]  | -  |
+| [[Bernhard Braune]]  | -  |
+| [[Beth Arthy]]  | -  |
+| [[Bounfeng Phoummalaysith]] | -  |
+| [[Bvudzai Magadzire]]  | -  |
+| [[Deena Shiff]]  | -  |
+| [[Edna Yolani Batres]]  | -  |
+| [[Etleva Kadilli]]  | -  |
+| [[Francesca Manno]]  | -  |
+| [[Gabriella Fésüs]]  | -  |
+| [[Helen Rees]]  | -  |
+| [[John Arne Røttingen]]  | -  |
+| [[Joris Jurriëns]]  | -  |
+| [[Jose Manuel Barroso]]  | -  |
+| [[Juan Pablo Uribe]]  | -  |
+| [[Kate O'Brien]]  | -  |
+| [[Kwaku Agyeman-Manu]]  | -  |
+| [[Lia Tadesse]]  | -  |
+| [[Mahima Datla]]  | -  |
+| [[Mansukh Mandaviya]]  | -  |
+| [[Margaret Hamburg]]  | -  |
+| [[Marta Nunes]]  | -  |
+| [[Megan Cain]]  | -  |
+| [[Michael Kent Ranson]]  | -  |
+| [[Mohamed Jama]]  | -  |
+| [[Naguib Kheraj]]  | -  |
+| [[Omar Abdi]]  | -  |
+| [[Rafael Vilasanjuan]]  | -  |
+| [[Robert Lucien Kargougou]]  | -  |
+| [[Roger Connor]]  | -  |
+| [[Saad Omer]]  | -  |
+| [[Sarah Goulding]]  | -  |
+| [[Seth Berkley]]  | -  |
+| [[Silvia Lutucuta]]  | -  |
+| [[Takeshi Akahori]]  | -  |
+| [[Teresa Ressel]]  | -  |
+| [[Violaine Mitchell]]  | -  |
+| [[Won Do-Yeon]]  | -  |
+| [[Xiang Shu]]  | -  |
+| [[Yibing Wu]]  | -  |
+| [[Zsuzanna Jakab]]  | -  |
+==== Donors ====
+In 2020, the [[Rockefeller Foundation]] committed $5 million to Gavi.((//Rockefeller Foundation.// Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Retrieved April 15, 2022, from https://archive.ph/dsMON))
 {{gavi-revised-independent-assessment-committee-charter-and-bylawspdf.pdf|GAVI Independent Assessment Committee Charter and Bylaws}}
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 At the Berlin Pledging Conference 2015, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced USD 1.55 billion for Gavi’s next 2016-2025 strategic period.
-At the 2020 Global Vaccine Summit, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced USD 1.6 billion for Gavi’s next 2021-2025 strategic period. In addition to this funding, the Foundation pledged USD 150 million in support of Gavi’s [[COVAX]] AMC to ensure equitable access to vaccines for AMC-eligible economies. ((https://web.archive.org/web/20220112134226/https://www.gavi.org/investing-gavi/funding/donor-profiles/bill-melinda-gates-foundation))
+At the 2020 Global Vaccine Summit, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced USD 1.6 billion for Gavi’s next 2021-2025 strategic period. In addition to this funding, the Foundation pledged USD 150 million in support of Gavi’s [[COVAX]] AMC to ensure equitable access to vaccines for AMC-eligible economies. ((//The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.// (2022, June 30). Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. https://web.archive.org/web/20220112134226/https://www.gavi.org/investing-gavi/funding/donor-profiles/bill-melinda-gates-foundation))
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 Interview with Geert Vanden Bossche PhD ((https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJZxiNxYLpc))
+==== Above the Law ====
+According to Stuckelberger, Switzerland is at the heart of the corruption, largely thanks to it being the headquarters for GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, founded by Bill Gates. In 2009, the GAVI Alliance was recognized as an international institution and granted total blanket immunity.6
+As explained by Justus Hoffmann, Ph.D., one of the German Corona Extra-Parliamentary Inquiry Committee members, GAVI has “qualified diplomatic immunity,” which is odd, considering the organization has no political power that would warrant diplomatic immunity. Odder still is that GAVI’s immunity clauses go beyond even that of diplomats. GAVI’s immunity covers all aspects of engagement, including criminal business dealings.
+GAVI is a nongovernmental organization that is allowed to operate without paying any taxes, while also having total immunity for anything they do wrong.
+“They can do whatever they want,” Stuckelberger says, without repercussions. The police, for example, are barred from conducting an investigation and collecting evidence if GAVI were to be implicated in a criminal investigation. “It’s shocking,” she says. GAVI is also completely tax exempt, which Stuckelberger notes is “very strange.”
+Essentially, GAVI is a nongovernmental organization (NGO) that is allowed to operate without paying any taxes, while also having total immunity for anything they do wrong, willfully or otherwise. This is rather unprecedented, and raises a whole host of questions. It’s particularly disturbing in light of evidence Stuckelberger claims to have found showing that GAVI is “directing, as a corporate entity, the WHO.”
+Furthermore, documents cited by Stuckelberger show the WHO has assumed what amounts to dictatorial power over the whole world. The director general has the sole power to make decisions — including decisions about which tests or pandemic medications to use — that all member states must then obey. ((https://web.archive.org/web/20210320170217/https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/who-insider-blows-whistle-on-gates-and-gavi))
 ==== COVID Vaccines ====
-Serum Institute signs deal with Gavi, Gates Foundation to deliver 100 million Covid vaccine doses
+Serum Institute of India (SII) on Friday said it has signed a deal with the international vaccine alliance Gavi and the [[Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation]] to accelerate the manufacturing and delivery of up to 100 million does of Covid-19 vaccines for India and other low-income countries.
 [[Serum Institute]] of India said the vaccines will be prices at a maximum $3 per dose and will be made available in 92 countries that are included in Gavi’s [[COVAX]] Advance Market Commitment (AMC). The Adar Poonawalla -led company had earlier joined hands with [[AstraZeneca]] and [[Novavax]] to develop their Covid vaccines. The same $3 per dose price applies in case of these deals as well.
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 Over the last decade, the Government of India has encouraged innovation and supported the [[Indian vaccine industry]] to manufacture high quality, affordable indigenous tools and products to benefit India and the world. We are very happy to see SII enter this global partnership to respond to the global health crisis posed by Covid-19," Dr Renu Swarup, Secretary, [[Department of Biotechnology]], Government of India said.
 ((https://web.archive.org/web/20200807161626/https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/serum-institute-signs-deal-with-gavi-gates-foundation-to-deliver-100-million-covid-vaccine-doses-1708794-2020-08-07))
+===== Political Connections =====
+Former GAVI director [[Jens Stoltenberg]] (2002-2005) is a Norwegian politician who current serves as the [[NATO]] Secretary General.