Towards good quality universal health.

Improving health in developing countries is one of the most effective ways to combat the vicious cycle of poverty and disease and is therefore one of our priorities.

Alliance for Child Vaccination

In 2008, ”la Caixa” Foundation became the first private partner of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance in Europe, with the aim of helping to increase the equitable use of vaccines in lower and middle-income countries and thereby reduce the number of deaths among children. At the same time, ”la Caixa” Foundation also launched its Child Vaccination Alliance to give companies the chance to join the fight against child mortality as part of their corporate social responsibility; as well as involving customers and employees as a charitable initiative, and also individuals wishing to help save children’s lives through microdonations.

GAVI is the first public-private alliance to combat child mortality. ISGlobal, the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, joined the Alliance as a strategic partner, providing its scientific and academic expertise.

ISGlobal, the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, joined the Alliance as a strategic partner, providing its scientific and academic expertise.

To this end, we reinforce strategic international alliances in global health by focusing on two of the main causes of child mortality: pneumonia and malaria.

”la Caixa” Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation quadruple each donation with matching contributions to boost efforts to combat child mortality.

ICARIA, programme to combat malaria

We work to reduce child mortality and cases of malaria by collaborating with ICARIA*, the applied research programme.

This programme, led by ISGlobal, includes a 5-year clinical trial in different districts of Sierra Leone and also involves the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.