Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Andrew Pelling (Independent (affiliation)), on Tuesday, 6 April 2010, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 13 members in total.

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GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR VACCINES AND IMMUNISATION

That this House welcomes the success of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) through its work in averting the deaths of five million people since 2000 including the vaccination of an additional 233 million children against hepatitis B, sponsoring the development of a better value for money market in vaccines and tapping into effective financing in the capital markets through the World Bank and the International Finance Facility for Immunisation; supports the call for US$ 2.6 billion in additional funding for GAVI projects such that GAVI can save 4.2 million more lives in developing countries, preventing deaths from diseases such as hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough and Haemophilus influenzae type B, but mainly from pneumonia and diarrhoea which kill up to 1.5 million children every year in developing countries; and is encouraged by the long-term agreements made by pharmaceutical firms to supply new, affordable vaccines against pneumococcal disease to the world's poorest countries.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1239 

Session

2009-10

Other sponsors

Jim Dobbin

Peter Bottomley

David Lepper

Andrew Dismore

Mark Durkan

Subjects

Developing countries Vaccination

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk