Gavi’s INFUSE seeks proven registration and identity verification tech to boost immunisation coverage and delivery.
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance is calling for talented problem solvers, entrepreneurs and established corporations to help immunise the world’s most vulnerable children. As part of its 2018 call, INFUSE (or, Innovation for Uptake, Scale and Equity in immunisation) – Gavi’s innovation acceleration platform – is looking for new proven digital technology for registration and verification of identity to accelerate and improve immunisation coverage and delivery.
Launched at the 2016 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, INFUSE seeks tried and tested innovations that have potential to improve vaccine delivery. It then “infuses” them with capital and expertise to help take them to scale. The INFUSE 2018 theme is “Leveraging Digital Technologies for Registration, Identification, Digital Record-Keeping and Follow-Up to Ensure Healthier Futures.”
While more children than ever before are protected with life-saving vaccines, an estimated 1.5 million children still die annually from vaccine preventable diseases. To ensure that all children have access to immunisation we will require better insight into which children are missing out. A common challenge in many developing countries is that an increasing number of people live in communities not well served or under the radar, invisible to often outdated, paper-based methods used to certify births, deaths and marriages.
“One in three children under age five does not officially exist because their birth wasn’t registered. This can have a lasting impact on children’s lives, leaving them vulnerable to neglect and abuse. But most importantly, we cannot vaccinate the children who we do not know exist”, said Gavi CEO Dr Seth Berkley. “We need affordable, secure digital identification systems that can store a child’s medical history, and that can be accessed even in places without reliable electricity”, he added.
Do you have a proven solution which addresses this issue and is ready to scale-up at a national, regional or global level? Then you need to be part of INFUSE 2018 and help protect the world’s most vulnerable children.