Earlier this week, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, managed to secure $7.54 billion in aid commitments for its work in the next five years. But many longstanding donors were curiously absent from Tuesday’s pledging table in Berlin, Germany.
As Devex reported ahead of the conference, Denmark didn’t pledge new funding for the public private partnership since its work no longer jives with the bilateral donor’s global health priorities.
But there were others: Brazil, which pledged $12 million previously, for instance, and Japan, which was present but didn’t make any immediate commitment; and a host of other investors.