An international public-private partnership created in 2000, headquartered in Geneva, pools donor funding primarily to help the world's poorest countries introduce newer and underused childhood vaccines such as those against pneumococcal disease and rotavirus. This organization is:

• A Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance ✓
• B The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
• C UNITAID
• D The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)

Explanation

Gavi, launched at Davos in 2000 as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, finances procurement of new and underused vaccines and strengthens immunization systems in low-income countries. The best distractor is the Global Fund, also Geneva-based and also created around 2002, but its mandate is financing programmes against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria rather than vaccine introduction. UNITAID funds diagnostics and medicines for the same three diseases, and CEPI develops vaccines against epidemic threats.

Reference: Park's Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine, 27th ed.

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