Save 4 million children's lives in the next 5 years

We can save 4 million children’s lives in the next 5 years - if we make smart investments in scaling up vaccines against leading childhood killers like diarrhoea and pneumonia.

The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation – GAVI – needs another £500 million a year over the next five years to save these four million children.

World leaders are gathering in London on June 13 to decide how much money to give GAVI - and as hosts, the UK can set the scene by making an ambitious contribution of its own, and pressuring other governments to give more.

But, as we all know, times are tough, and we need to show the government that this is an issue that British people care about.

Sign the petition on the right, and add your voices to thousands already taking action through our friends at ONE and Save the Children. The text of the petition is:

Dear World Leaders,
Childhood vaccines are one of the most cost-effective ways to save lives and prevent disease for a lifetime. Please fund two proven, new vaccines that will help stop pneumonia and diarrhoea - two of the biggest killers of children in poor countries.

Facts about GAVI and vaccines

  • The world has more than halved the number of kids dying before their fifth birthday in the last 50 years - from 20 million to just 8.1 million dealths a year in kids under five (source).
  • Polio cases are down 99% since 1988 (source).
  • Measles deaths are down 78% in the last 10 years thanks to vaccines (source). 
  • GAVI has saved 5.4 million lives in the last 10 years (source).
  • GAVI is regularly rated as one of the most effective aid recipients in the world (source).
  • The UK has been a major supporter of GAVI in the past (source).
  • Diarrhoea and pnuemonia cause 36% of deaths in children under the age 5 - that's a total of 1.5 million deaths a year (source).

See the proof