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<p>The UK is proud to have raised $8.8 billion for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance at the
Global Vaccine Summit on 4 June. This funding, which includes the UK’s world-leading
£1.65 billion pledge, will support Gavi’s strategy to leave no one behind with immunisation
over the next five years.</p><p>The UK’s central priority for Gavi is equity. Gavi
immunises nearly half of the world’s children, and since 2000, has increased basic
immunisation coverage levels in Gavi-supported countries from 59% to 80%. Despite
increases in overall immunisation coverage levels, health systems in the poorest countries
are still not reaching almost one in five children with a full course of basic vaccines.</p><p>These
remaining pockets of under-immunised children are often the hardest to reach. The
UK is working closely with Gavi to ensure that we remove barriers to immunisation
for the most marginalised children. Gavi is working closely with its Alliance Partners,
WHO and UNICEF, to adopt new strategies in-country to address gender, poverty, fragility
and intra-country barriers to immunisation.</p>
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