Giving Compass' Take:

• Global Citizen profiles the international alliance Gavi, which has vaccinated 700 million children in its 18-year history, looking at the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.

• What can Gavi tell us about the power of collaboration in global health care? How can we find ways to immunize the populations that are hardest to reach?

• Here's why global vaccinations are a high impact opportunity.

Inequality was a central theme of Gavi’s 2016-2020 Mid-Term Review Meeting, hosted [recently] in Abu Dhabi by UAE Aid, to celebrate Gavi’s progress and explore the challenges and opportunities to come ahead of its 2020 replenishment.

Gavi has achieved extraordinary progress globally in its 18 years of existence. It has, for example, vaccinated over 700 million children around the world and has saved over 10 million lives.

“You can imagine the road that has been walked from 2000 to 2018,” Guillaume Grosso, Gavi's director of international business development and European strategy, told Global Citizen at the conference. “700 million children is twice the population of the United States. It’s a gigantic achievement. And that also means that we can trace how many lives have been saved, because vaccination is so transparent in terms of the impact.”

“I don’t know of any other intervention that has so much impact in people’s lives,” he continued. “So I think this is why we’re really excited. It’s not just any moment for us, it’s very special.”

Read the full article about Gavi making vaccinations a priority by Imogen Calderwood at Global Citizen.