The GAVI Alliance launched its second replenishment on Tuesday in Brussels with an appeal for an additional $7.5 billion to help protect more than 300 million children from life-threatening diseases and save up to 12 million lives by 2020.
This would be on top of $2 billion already raised and allocated for the 2016 to 2020 funding cycle, a 15 percent increase over the funds for the present funding cycle.
In a statement, GAVI Chairman Dagfinn Hoybraten told donors that “we are faced with an historic opportunity to support countries to build sustainable immunization programs that will protect entire generations of children" and “secure the future health and economic prosperity of all our children in years to come."