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former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, was on Monday appointed into
two key international positions, her Media Adviser, Paul Nwabuikwu, said in a
statement in Abuja.
Apart
from being named Chair of the 28-member Board of the Global Alliance for
Vaccines and Immunisation, GAVI, Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala also joined the
167-year-old global sovereign advisory investment firm, Lazard, as Senior
Advisor.
GAVI
is a $12 billion multilateral international public-private partnership
committed to saving the lives of children and protecting people’s health by
improving access to immunization in developing countries, including Nigeria.
GAVI,
which disburses grants of upwards of $1.8 billion annually to developing
countries for immunization programmes, brings together developing countries and
donor governments, including the World Health Organization, WHO; United Nations
International Children’s Education Fund, UNICEF, and the World Bank.
Other
partners to the global agency include the vaccine industry in both industrialized
and developing countries, research and technical agencies, civil society, the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists.
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