WHO - World Health Organization
$32,000,000.00 CAD
- Department
- Global Affairs Canada
- Program
- —
- Recipient country
- Canada
- Fiscal year
- 2007-2008
- Agreement period
- March 11, 2008 – March 30, 2012
- Project status
- Finalisation
- Reference
- CA-3-M011633001
Published purpose
This grant represents Canada's institutional support to the Canadian International Immunization Initiative (CIII). The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF jointly coordinate the multilateral portions of the CIII with the goal to increase and intensify immunization services for children at risk of contracting preventable and often fatal illnesses in low and middle-income countries. Immunization currently prevents more then 2.5 million deaths every year in all age groups. The current global coverage rate for immunization of children under a year old in 2007 was 81%, up from 75% in 2003, with 117 countries reaching 90% or more in immunization coverage. Immunization is a universally recommended, cost-effective, public health priority. The CIII targets the following childhood diseases: diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, polio and measles. This portion of the CIII grant is supporting the work of the WHO. Canada's support for immunization initiatives are in line with the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing the death rate among children under the age of five by two-thirds, by 2015.
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This grant provides Canadian institutional support to the World Health Organization for the Canadian International Immunization Initiative, aiming to increase childhood immunization coverage against preventable diseases in low- and middle-income countries.
Category: Foreign Aid Development Primarily funds activity outside Canada
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