Voices for Vaccines

In poorer countries, where challenges loom large and resources are scarce, vaccines are not just tools of prevention; they are pathways to survival, dignity, and a better future. They represent the belief that every life is worth protecting. Vaccines hold the power to break the chains of disease, to bridge the gaps of inequality, and to sow the seeds of a healthier, more equitable world for all.

In the late 1990s, the progress of international immunisation programs was stalling. Nearly 30 million children in developing countries were not fully immunised against deadly diseases, and many others went without any immunisation at all.

Responding to this crisis, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a group of founding partners brought to life a solution to encourage manufacturers to lower vaccine prices for the poorest countries in return for long-term, high-volume, and predictable demand from those countries. In 2000, that breakthrough idea became the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation – today Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.

'Voices for Vaccines' - Results 2024 campaign for Gavi

On June 20 2024, the Government of France, the African Union, and Gavi gathered leaders from government, partner organisations, civil society, and businesses across the globe to accelerate sustainable immunisation and innovation for equitable health by 2030. The event made the case for donor countries, including Australia, to invest in a new era of immunisation with the launch of Gavi’s investment opportunity for 2026-2030.

Gavi’s 2026–2030 plan is ambitious and provides a unique opportunity to significantly accelerate impact in the fight against diseases of poverty. By improving access to existing vaccines like rotavirus, measles and human papillomavirus (HPV), while introducing new vaccines against deadly diseases like malaria, dengue and tuberculosis, Gavi can reach the next billion children in half the time.

To this end, Results has launched our ‘Voices for Vaccines’ campaign. Over the next six months our advocates and passionate staff will be working alongside our colleagues at Pacific Friends of Global Health in spearheading advocacy for Gavi. We’ll be highlighting the impact of Gavi, meeting with MPs, injecting our voices into the media, and so much more.

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Gavi is a global health partnership dedicated to increasing access to life-saving vaccines for children in the world's poorest countries. Since its establishment in 2000, Gavi has helped immunise more than 1 billion children and has prevented more than 17 million future deaths.

Gavi is at the forefront of the global effort to expand access to vaccines for children in low-income countries. It plays a critical role in bringing us closer to the Sustainable Development Goal of Universal Health Coverage, ensuring that no one is left behind.

By leveraging partnerships with governments, NGOs, and the private sector, GAVI has been able to negotiate lower prices for vaccines, strengthen health systems, and support immunisation programs in some of the world’s most challenging environments.

More children survive. The increase in immunisation has helped halve childhood mortality by averting more than 17.3 million future deaths and dramatically driven down the incidence of deadly and debilitating infectious diseases.

Nation building thrives. As children become healthier, they, their families, communities, and countries are more able to be economically prosperous and socially stable. For every US$1 spent on immunisation in Gavi-supported countries in the 2021–2030 period, US$21 is saved in health care costs, lost wages, and lost productivity due to illness and death. In Gavi’s first 22 years, their work helped generate more than US$220.5 billion in economic benefits in the countries they support.

Global health security improves. In the face of global challenges, such as climate change, population growth, urbanisation, human migration, fragility, and conflict, Gavi has helped countries broaden vaccine coverage and improve health systems. This makes people less susceptible to disease and better able to prevent outbreaks that pose a threat to entire populations, protecting millions of others around the world.

Gavi coordinated the, COVAX Facility - distributing COVID-19 vaccines to 92 lower-income countries, including our neighbours in PNG, Timor-Leste, and throughout the Pacific.

Gavi has funded the Burnet Institute, in partnership with the Solomon Islands Ministry of Health and Medical Services, to work with local partners to develop and implement strategies to improve vaccination uptake.

Along with the Australian government and other partners, Gavi is supporting a measles vaccination campaign in Laos this year, delivering 650,000 vaccines.

Gavi has supported Indonesia to roll-out PCV vaccines, protecting children against pneumonia, and HPV vaccines in Timor-Leste- protecting against cervical cancer.

Results believe that every child, no matter where they are born, has the right to a healthy life. Vaccines are one of the best ways to ensure this. Routine vaccinations are the most effective way to ensure that children in poorer countries have a future beyond the age of five, enabling them to grow up and live happy, healthy lives.

Results advocacy for Gavi is crucial in ensuring that the Australian Government continues to commit significant funding to this lifesaving initiative. Results advocacy and campaign efforts are essential in:

Increasing awareness: our advocacy helps to raise awareness about the importance of vaccines and immunisation in preventing diseases and saving lives. By advising and educating our MPs and policymakers, we are ensuring they understand the problem at hand and the solutions that are required.
Building political support: we advocate tirelessly to drive political support for Gavi at the federal level. By engaging with MPs and other key decision-makers, we are building the case for substantial government investment in Gavi’s mission and programs.
Influencing policies: our work plays a crucial role in shaping and influencing our government’s policy agenda. Our deep relationships, strong partnerships, and trusted expertise ensure we are well-placed to influence aid and development policy and ensure Australia is committing its fair share to Gavi.
Mobilising resources: our advocacy has mobilised tens of millions of dollars for Gavi’s immunisation programs. This funding has ensured Gavi can continue to support the introduction of new vaccines to children in poorer countries, strengthen health systems and improve immunisation coverage worldwide.
Ensuring accountability: we ensure our government is held accountable for its commitments to immunisation and global health and is doing its part in being a good international citizen.

Since 2011, Results has advocated tirelessly for increased Government funding in Gavi. We campaigned extensively with our CSO partners to ensure that the Australian Government made a significant financial contribution at each Gavi replenishment event in 2011, 2015, and 2020. We were successful in securing transformational funding for each replenishment, with the government pledging $250 million, $250 million, and $300 million respectively.

These contributions have made Australia Gavi’s second-largest donor and strongest supporter in the Asia-Pacific region, and most importantly, these contributions have saved the lives of millions of children worldwide.

Results is committed to advocating for the world's most effective initiatives which work to fight poverty. Multilateral organisations like Gavi mobilise billions of dollars for the world's poorest and most vulnerable nations, tackling the root causes of poverty, achieving impact-at-scale and saving millions of lives.

Between 2000 - 2020 Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance helped vaccinate 1 billion children in 78 lower-income countries, saving over 17 million lives. Today, a child born in a Gavi-supported country is 70% less likely to die from a vaccine-preventable disease before their fifth birthday. These results make Gavi one of the best buys in protecting children's health.

Gavi’s 2026–2030 plan is even more ambitious and provides a unique opportunity to significantly accelerate this impact. By improving access to existing vaccines like rotavirus, measles and human papillomavirus (HPV), while introducing new vaccines against deadly diseases like malaria, dengue and tuberculosis, Gavi can reach the next billion children in half the time and save a further 8 million lives.

Each US$1 of investment in immunisations brings US$54 in wider economic benefits, saving lives and ensuring entire communities can thrive. This is why Results International (Australia) remains committed to ensuring our government commits significant funding to Gavi.

From 2026-2030, Gavi will protect the future by:

Immunising a further 500 million more children, saving an additional 8-9 millions lives.
Catalysing over $US4 billion of financial contributions through domestic co-financing and self-funded vaccine programs.
Standing ready to respond to 150 disease outbreaks to boost global health security and protect against the threat of future pandemics.
Reducing prices across at least 50% of Gavi's vaccine portfolio.
Generating at least US$100 billion in economic benefits for its beneficiary countries.
Facilitating over 1.4 billion individual contacts between families and health services, enabling more integrated primary health care and Universal Health Coverage.
Saving 1.5 million lives through the HPV vaccine by protecting girls against cervical cancer
Vaccinating over 50 million children against malaria.