The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) was launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos 10 years ago on January 31, 2000 with the aim to save children’s lives and protect people’s health by increasing access to immunisation in poor countries. Watch the highlights of the session below:

Bill Gates, then chairman of Microsoft tells a plenary session why he chose immunisation as his first major investment in global health. World Health Organization’s Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland, James Wolfensohn of the World Bank, Carol Bellamy from UNICEF and Joaquim Chissano, President of Mozambique, all stress the importance of this public-private partnership and what they hope it will achieve.

Since 2000, the GAVI Alliance has provided funding to immunise more than 250 million children in developing countries against life-threatening diseases and prevented nearly four million deaths. Watch Julian Lob-Levyt, CEO of the GAVI Alliance on the achievements of the GAVI Alliance and the objective at the upcoming meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos.