• Raise consciousness for and enhance visibility of worldwide well being. Gavi and the Virchow Foundation will work collectively to lift consciousness on world and public well being points and push for larger fairness in well being protection all over the world.

• Marie-Ange Saraka-Yao, Managing Director of Resource Mobilisation, Private Sector Partnerships & Innovative Finance at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance: “We look forward to harnessing Germany’s growing leadership in the field of global health to support the goal of universal health coverage and vaccinating the world’s children.”

• Victoria Grandsoult, Managing Director, Virchow Foundation for Global Health: “Through this cooperation, we can build effective bridges for international players to engage with Germany while advancing our joint goals of reaching the UN 2030 Agenda and health for all.”

**Geneva/Berlin, 16 May 2023 **– Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the Virchow Foundation for Global Health have agreed to work collectively to advertise and contribute to the attainment of the United Nations Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development (SDGs). Representatives of each organisations signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) throughout the Global Solutions Summit 2023: ‘Realigning Societies: Towards a sustainable, inclusive, and common future’ in Berlin.

The newly established partnership displays the significance of becoming a member of sources, sharing data and pooling experience in the direction of attaining the SDGs, with explicit deal with SDG3 “Good Health and Well-Being” and SDG17 “Partnerships for the Goals”, particularly in, however not restricted to, the areas of equitable well being entry and common well being protection. The MoU supplies a framework between Gavi and the Virchow Foundation the place each organisations decide to work collectively within the following areas:

• Leverage Gavi and the Virchow Foundations’ platforms and networks to lift consciousness and have interaction in advocacy actions for world and public well being points;
• Jointly manage and facilitate conferences, together with key world well being occasions such because the annual awarding of the Virchow Prize for Global Health;
• Unite totally different actors and sectors with the shared aim of bettering of worldwide well being fairness, well being resilience and constructing multi-sectoral partnerships for well being.

“With strong support from the scientific community in Germany, the Virchow Foundation is a strong partner for the Vaccine Alliance,” stated Marie-Ange Saraka-Yao, Managing Director of Resource Mobilisation, Private Sector Partnerships & Innovative Finance at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. “We look forward to harnessing Germany’s growing leadership in the field of global health to support the goal of universal health coverage and vaccinating the world’s children.”

“The Virchow Foundation is delighted to partner with the Vaccine Alliance, a global leader in primary care, to further inspire positive change towards reaching health equity. Through this cooperation, we can build effective bridges for international players to engage with Germany while advancing our joint goals of reaching the UN 2030 Agenda and health for all.” Victoria Grandsoult, Managing Director, Virchow Foundation for Global Health.

Germany is a number one, longstanding supporter of worldwide well being and a acknowledged anchor donor of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance – the public-private partnership that helps vaccinate practically half the world’s youngsters, with 65 million distinctive youngsters immunised with Gavi-supported vaccines in 2021 alone. The Virchow Foundation is amongst the important thing German establishments targeted on Global Health in Germany, mobilising engagement from throughout sectors to lift consciousness and stimulate progressive options in well being by way of the annual awarding of the Virchow Prize for Global Health.

Notes to editors

About Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance is a public-private partnership that helps vaccinate half the world’s youngsters in opposition to a number of the world’s deadliest illnesses. From its inception in 2000 by way of 2021, Gavi has helped to immunise a complete technology – over 981 million youngsters – and prevented greater than 16.2 million future deaths, serving to to halve baby mortality in 73 lower-income nations. Gavi additionally performs a essential function in world well being safety by funding world stockpiles of vaccines in addition to outbreak response in opposition to illnesses corresponding to cholera, measles and Ebola. The Vaccine Alliance brings collectively growing nation and donor governments, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine trade, technical businesses, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and different personal sector companions. Further data:  www.gavi.org 

About the Virchow Foundation for Global Health

The Virchow Foundation for Global Health was established in 2021 with the assist of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in addition to Members of the German Parliament to contribute to the advance of well being worldwide. This function is achieved by way of the joint dedication of extremely revered people and organisations, the shut partnership with the World Health Summit, and the institution of the Virchow Prize for Global Health. The Virchow Prize recognises excellent lifetime achievements within the subject of worldwide well being that align and uphold the Sustainable Development Goals of the Agenda 2030 of the United Nations and is endowed with €500,000. Further data: www.virchow.foundation

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