Building a world where every child survives and thrives.
The Governments of Mozambique and Sierra Leone in partnership with the Government of Spain, the Gates Foundation, ”la Caixa” Foundation and UNICEF are organizing the Innovation and Action for Immunization and Child Survival Forum to be held from 22-24 July 2025 in Maputo, Mozambique.
Building on the successes of the previous global forums on childhood pneumonia, this forum will foster action to tackle the leading infectious disease threats to child survival. With only five years remaining to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, urgent and coordinated action is needed to accelerate progress and get countries back on-track.
The forum will bring together stakeholders across selected countries in sub-Saharan Africa and other regions including senior health ministry officials, development agencies, donors, academia, civil society, and the private sector.
This forum will take place in the context of increasing pressure on low- and middle-income country government budgets, sharp declines in international development assistance, and rising disease outbreak and other threats due to climate change, conflict and flagging immunization coverage levels.
Accordingly, it will focus on new and underutilized tools to deliver progress on child survival, more effective infectious disease risk mitigation and surveillance strategies, more efficient models of service delivery, the need for robust prioritization exercises including for routine immunization systems and new vaccine introductions, and innovative child survival financing options.