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GAVI Alliance Immunize Every Child is the US based non-profit organization engaging the private sector to support the provision of life-saving vaccines to the world’s poorest children by the GAVI Alliance and its immunization partners. GAVI, headquartered in Geneva, is an alliance of governments, foundations, industry, NGOs, and individuals joined in a global effort to dramatically increase access to immunization. Since its inception with a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gate’s Foundation in 2000, the GAVI Alliance has prevented a cumulative 3.4 million future deaths and protected a cumulative 213 million children with new and underused vaccines. It took Europe 150 years to achieve the improvements in child health that the Alliance can achieve in the poorest countries within 10 to 15 years.

To further engage visionary private philanthropists, corporations, foundations and communities in this global vaccination effort, the Immunize Every Child campaign was launched in New York City in September 2007. The Every Child Council was established in September 2008 to pay tribute to a diverse and dynamic group of influential individuals from public and private life including Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Her Royal Highness La Infanta Cristina of Spain, Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and President, Realizing Rights, Jon Corzine, Governor of the State of New Jersey, Mel Karmazin, CEO, SIRIUS Satellite Radio, George W. Wellde, Jr., Vice Chairman of Securities Division (Retired), Goldman Sachs & Co., Paul O’Connell, President, FDO Partners and Eileen O’Connell, physician, and Isidro Fainé, Chief Executive Officer, La Caixa Foundation.

The Immunize Every Child campaign is also engaging major corporate partners in GAVI’s mission. In April 2008 GAVI partnered with La Caixa, Spain's leading savings bank and Europe's second largest foundation, in a multi-faceted engagement and giving program. This unique and noteworthy corporate social responsibility initiative includes an annual grant from the La Caixa Foundation, engagement of La Caixa's 26,000 employees, 400,000 depositors and 11 million account holders.

GAVI Alliance Immunize Every Child is also reaching out to the broader community of individuals who want to make a difference. GiveVaccines is an internet site where people play a vocabulary game and where each correct answer funds 0.01 ml of vaccine for the GAVI Alliance. Immunize Every Child is also one of the founding members of World Pneumonia Day to be held on November 2nd 2009. This will provide individuals a way to engage in the fight against pneumonia as the number one killer of children. 2 million children under the age of 5 die every year from pneumonia and that number could be dramatically reduced with the widescale introduction of the pneumococcal conjugate and Hib vaccines. Raising awareness about the potential of these vaccines to reduce pneumonia deaths as well as the potential for the new rotavirus vaccine to prevent diarrheal deaths (the second biggest killer of children) are strategic priorities for the GAVI Immunize Every Child campaign.