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Ghana -- A Most Excellent Adventure

ONE | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Ghana, ONE Campaign, Malnutrition, GAVI Alliance, ONE Moms, One Ghana Trip, ONE Ghana, Global Maternal Health, Global Children's Health, Maternal Health, Global Motherhood, Impact News
ONE

Seeing the starving kids on television does not prepare you for seeing it up close and personal. Standing outside the door of the in-patient room we were about to enter I took a deep breath to still myself for what may lay on the the other side of the door.

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Good Things Come in Different-Sized Packages

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Polio, Expanded Programme on Immunization, Measles, Unicef, Diarrhea, Pneumonia, Ivac, GAVI Alliance, World Health Organization, Vaccines, Project Optimize, Video, Impact News
Dr. Orin Levine

Decisions around vaccine container size and type -- whether single-dose vial, multi-dose container or pre-filled syringe -- have important implications for a variety of stakeholders.

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Access to the Power of Vaccines

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Mhealth, Center for Strategic and International Studies, International Vaccine Access Center, GAVI Alliance, India, Bangladesh, Nigeria, World Health Organization, Vaccines, Johns Hopkins, Public Health, Decade of Vaccines, Bill Gates, Global Health, Pneumococcal, Impact News
Dr. Orin Levine

Several major announcements have been made in recent weeks about the expansion of vaccine access to the world's poor.

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Global Vaccines Group Plans To Buy Cervical Cancer Shots

AP | MARIA CHENG | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Video, GAVI Alliance, Gavi Alliance Cervical Cancer Shot, Gavi Cervical Cancer Shot, Healthy Living Health News, Gavi Alliance Cervical Cancer Vaccines, Gavi Cervical Cancer Vaccines, Gavi Cervical Cancer, Healthy Living News

LONDON — A global vaccines group said Thursday it was working to buy shots to protect up to 2 million women and girls in poor countries from cer...

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Saving Lives: Could There Be Any Better Return on Investment?

Bill Roedy | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Vaccine, Global Health, GAVI Alliance, Immunization, Vaccines, Bill Roedy, Impact News
Bill Roedy

A quick jab in the arm or drop in the mouth can provide a lifetime of protection against some of the deadliest threats we face.

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Polio Parallels

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: March of Dimes, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, GAVI Alliance, David Oshinsky, Polio Vaccine, Malaria, Global Fund to Fight AIDS TB and Malaria, Vaccine, Malaria Vaccine, World News
Dr. Orin Levine

To a technical community accustomed to other vaccines that routinely provide 80%, 90%, or even 95% protection, the new potential Malaria vaccine's level of protective efficacy is considered almost disappointing.

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Vaccines: The Biggest Bang for the Buck in Global Health

Seth Berkley, M.D. | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Rotavirus, Global Health, GAVI Alliance, Seth Berkley, Immunization, Pneumonia, Vaccines, Impact News
Seth Berkley, M.D.

The power of vaccines is evident around the world, but nowhere will it be more so than in the over 30 developing countries that will begin -- for the first time -- to immunize their children with new rotavirus and pneumococcal vaccines.

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Progress That Demands Performance

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Rotavirus, Meningitis, GAVI Alliance, Measles, Diarrhea, Pneumonia, International Vaccine Access Center, GAVI Alliance Vaccines, Impact News
Dr. Orin Levine

For someone who has worked diligently for over a decade to accelerate access to new life-saving pneumonia vaccines, announcements like this week's make it all seem worth it.

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Watch: Vaccine Summit Raises $4.3 Billion

Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Britain, Video, Charity, United Kingdom, David Cameron, Health, Vaccination, Gavi, GAVI Alliance, Bill Gates, Bill Gates Foundation, Immunization, Medicine, Infant Mortality, Impact News

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Vaccines Save Lives: Every Child, Everywhere

Bill Gates | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Health, GAVI Alliance, Bill Gates, Vaccines, Impact News
Bill Gates

With the continued generosity of donors and the commitment of developing countries to reach every child, everywhere, the world will reach the point where the circumstances of a child's birth have nothing to do with whether he or she gets lifesaving vaccines.

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10 Years of Vaccine Progress in 10 Days

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: HPV Vaccine, Glaxosmithkline, GAVI Alliance, Merck, Vaccine Access, Unicef, Rotavirus, Bill Gates, Hib, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Vaccine Financing, International Vaccine Access Center, Ivac, Vaccine, Global Health, Orin Levine, Hepatitis B, Global Warming, Health, Impact News
Dr. Orin Levine

Finding the right balance between affordable prices, innovation, and supply security will require hard work, patience, and a long-term view.

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All Children Deserve Vaccines

Melinda Gates | Posted 08.05.2011

Read More: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, GAVI Alliance, Global Health, Global Poverty, Melinda Gates, Vaccines, Impact News
Melinda Gates

Now that several vaccine manufacturers are offering their vaccines at much lower costs, GAVI Alliance will be able to roll out the rotavirus vaccine, as well as other vaccines, for the first time ever in many of the poorest countries.

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A Special Relationship to Save Lives

Joanne Carter | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: United Kingdom, GAVI Alliance, Global Health, David Cameron, Rajiv Shah, Children's Health, Barack Obama, Usaid, Vaccines, World News
Joanne Carter

Each year about 8.8 million children in developing countries die from mostly preventable and treatable conditions. Nearly 40 percent of those deaths are from two common diseases: pneumonia and diarrhea.

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The Comeback Killers: Diphtheria, Measles, Whopping Cough, Polio

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Measles, Seth Mnookin, World Health Organization, Panic Virus, Diphtheria, Vaccine, GAVI Alliance, Pertussis, Herd Immunity, Vaccines, Healthy Living News
Dr. Orin Levine

Diphtheria. Measles. Whooping cough. Polio. If you think these diseases belonged to your parents and grandparents and not to our generation, you may be surprised to hear that they are making a comeback.

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Impact of Global Health Cuts Alarming, But Not Alarmist

Joanne Carter | Posted 06.06.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Politics News, Global Health, Foreign Aid, Malaria, Global Fund, Congress, GAVI Alliance, Tuberculosis, Rajiv Shah, Usaid, Politics News
Joanne Carter

According to Dr. Rajiv Shah, head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, budget cuts proposed by the House would "lead to 70,000 kids dying" by scaling back on things like malaria and immunization programs.

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Our Germs in the Gorillas' Midst

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: Streptococcus Pneumoniae, Ian Lipkin, Mountain Gorillas, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Columbia University, Pneumonia, Louis Pasteur, Johns Hopkins University, Pneumococcal Vaccine, Ivac, GAVI Alliance, Orin Levine, Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health, Rwanda, Perch, Personal Health, World News
Dr. Orin Levine

With the expanded use of life-saving interventions like the pneumococcal vaccine, we need to learn as much as possible about the remaining causes of severe pneumonia in children as we can.

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Unexpected Returns

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hib, Langata Health Center, Children?S Vaccine Initiative, Gettysburg College, Kenya?S National Immunization Program, GAVI Alliance, Nairobi, Pneumococcal, Facebook, Orin Levine, School for International Training, U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Kenya, World News
Dr. Orin Levine

In 1986, as a sophomore at Gettysburg College, I accompanied my dad, a pediatrician and vaccine researcher, on a two-week trip to Rwanda. I was insta...

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Leadership + Innovation = Lives Saved

Melinda Gates | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: GAVI Alliance, Global Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Pneumonia, Melinda Gates, Africa, Vaccines, Impact News
Melinda Gates

AMC has brought a state-of-the art pneumonia vaccine to Kenya about 18 months after it was introduced in Europe; until now, it took 15 to 20 years for new vaccines to trickle down to poor countries.

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Uncommon Rewards

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kenya Paediatric Association, President Kibaki of Kenya, International Vaccine Access Center, Fred Were, GAVI Alliance, Helen Evans, Advance Market Commitment, Orin Levine, Impact News
Dr. Orin Levine

The rewards of a career in public health are infrequent and often hard to see. In clinical medicine, doctors and nurses have the benefit of experiencing the impact they have on people's lives on a daily basis.

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Three global health trends for the next decade

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chris Murray, Unicef, The Lancet, Global Fund for AIDS, World Bank, GAVI Alliance, Andy Sumner, Global Poverty and the New Bottom Billion, Institute for Health Metrics & Evaluation, Jennifer Bryce, Global Fund, Jonathan Glennie, Institute for Development Studies, Owen Barder, Hans Rosling, World Health Organization, Orin Levine, Karolinska Institute, World News
Dr. Orin Levine

In the past two decades, the international donor community has ushered in a historic expansion of global health programs. Through multi-country initi...

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Winning Hearts and Minds With a Vaccine?

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hib, The Guardian, Meningococcus, Meningitis, Path, GAVI Alliance, World Health Organization, Sarah Boseley, Orin Levine, Pneumococcus, Gavi, Vaccines, World News
Dr. Orin Levine

Stopping meningitis epidemics makes good sense on many levels -- health, economic, and humanitarian among them. We need to approach this issue from a different angle: one of self-interest.

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Sparking a Movement for World Pneumonia Day

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Syrah, Grey's Anatomy, Glamour, Mission Pneumonia, Lance Laifer, Rhone Rangers, World Pneumonia Day, Kevin McKidd, Best Shot Foundation, Save the Children, Orin Levine, UK Parliament, GAVI Alliance, World News
Dr. Orin Levine

Only in its second year, it seems like World Pneumonia Day might be moving from spark to blaze -- engaging governments, child health organizations and advocates in an effort to spotlight the leading killer of children.

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Pneumonia's Final Verse

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carson Kressley, World Pneumonia Day, GAVI Alliance, Bruce Cockburn, Gwyneth Paltrow, Bernie Mac, Hugh Laurie, Pneumonia, Orin Levine, Patrick Swayze, James Brown, Madonna, Bono, World News
Dr. Orin Levine

A quick Google News search this morning using the term "pneumonia" brought up a bunch of stories. Most of them were about Canadian folk singer Bruce C...

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Five Priorities for the Next GAVI CEO

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unicef, World Bank, Who, Decade of Vaccines, GAVI Alliance, Bill Gates, Vaccine, Julian Lob-Levyt, Tore Godal, World News
Dr. Orin Levine

The GAVI Alliance has enjoyed 10 remarkable years. It's first CEO, Tore Godal, brought people and institutions together, gave GAVI a strategic v...

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From Maryland to Rwanda: Linking Communities to Prevent Disease

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pneumonia, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Pneumococcal Vaccine, GAVI Alliance, Unicef, Helen Evans, Pneumococcal Disease, Orin Levine, Gavi, Tike, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Rwanda, Kigali, Vaccines for Children, Maryland Department of Health, ONE Campaign, Baltimore City Health Department, World News
Dr. Orin Levine

Access to life-saving vaccines should not be determined by the lottery of birthplace and every child deserves a healthy future, whether they are born in Baltimore or Bangalore.

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