﻿ UNICEF - Centro de prensa - On the Occasion of the Sixth GAVI
Board Meeting  Centro de prensa   On the Occasion of the Sixth
GAVI Board Meeting  Imagen del UNICEF  17 October 2001  Thank
you Minister Minna.  On behalf of the GAVI Board, I want to
extend my thanks to Canada for their contribution to GAVI and
the Vaccine Fund. CIDA played a key role in the establishment of
GAVI and I congratulate them in their continued commitment to
global immunization.  These are difficult times and Canada's
contribution is a public statement endorsing the importance of
investing in immunization, despite increasingly competing
priorities.  GAVI is evolving. In just under two years since its
launch at Davos, GAVI has approved applications from 36 of the
world's poorest countries for vaccines and resources to
strengthen their immunization programmes. GAVI partners at
country level-including governments, NGOs, UNICEF, WHO and the
World Bank--have been working together to support the
application process and the development of m