GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, is a public-private global health partnership founded in 2000 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. It is funded by donor governments, foundations and private entities. Industrialised countries are the principal donors, providing roughly three-quarters of the total funding, with the United Kingdom, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (now called the Gates Foundation), and the United States historically being the largest contributors.
The World Health Organisation (“WHO”), along with United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (“UNICEF”) and the Gates Foundation, is one of GAVI’s core founding members and strategic partners. The Gates Foundation has long been WHO’s second-largest donor.
WHO is a specialised agency of the United Nations (“UN”) and, as such, acts as the UN’s “health cluster lead,” but WHO, GAVI and The Global Fund work together in close partnership to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 3 (“SDG 3”).
“Gavi helps vaccinate more than half the world’s children,” The Global Fund said in a 2024 report.
The Global Fund, or The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, is primarily funded by donor governments. But about 4% to 6% of funding comes from the private sector, including the Gates Foundation, which is the largest private sector supporter of the Fund. It was created to be a major source of funding in the push to achieve the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (“MDGs”). The MDGs were a set of 8 goals established in 2000 with a deadline of 2015. They were succeeded by the 17 SDGs of Agenda 2030.
You will have noted that there are two common characteristics of the organisations mentioned. Firstly, Bill Gates. Secondly, the UN’s global goals.
Currently, GAVI is coordinating an international response to the Bundibugyo Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (“DRC”) and Uganda.
GAVI is also working with WHO and Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (“CEPI”) to assess Ebola vaccine candidates.
“Gavi is also working with CEPI – with whom we have an established coordination agreement for such situations – and other partners, including the private sector, to assess the suitability and feasibility of various candidate vaccines currently in the research and development (R&D) pipeline, including how R&D could be accelerated to support outbreak response. This pipeline includes two candidates highlighted by WHO,” the Gates-funded organisation said.
With CEPI’s involvement, the pattern of Bill Gates’ funding and UN control continues. CEPI is a global partnership launched in January 2017at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. It is funded by a coalition of public, private, and “philanthropic” organisations, including the Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust, governments of Norway, India, the UK and the European Union.
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