The Decade of Vaccines (DoV) Collaboration is a supra-national non-governmental initiative “to increase coordination across the international vaccine community and create a Global Vaccine Action Plan.” It was launched in December 2010 in New York City, New York by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), UNICEF and the World Health Organization.[1]
History
In January 2010, Bill and Melinda Gates called for the following ten years to be a “decade of vaccines.” This was cited as the basis for the creation of the DoV Collaboration.[1:1]
External links
Robert, M., Hasan, H., Moen, C., & Billet, C. (2010, December 2). Global Health Leaders Launch Decade of Vaccines Collaboration. World Health Organization. http://archive.today/2013.10.30-095609/http://www.who.int/immunization/newsroom/press/news_release_decade_vaccines/en/index.html ↩︎ ↩︎
