UNITED NATIONS - / www.MaximsNews.com@ U.N./ - 05 April 2007 –   The GAVI Alliance has just announced that Andrew Maguire will be the new executive director of The GAVI Fund Campaign for Child Immunization to raise private U.S. funding for child vaccines for use in the world’s 75 poorest countries.

The GAVI Fund Campaign for Child Immunization encourages leaders and visionary individuals to help GAVI address one of the world’s most glaring injustices: to provide new life-saving vaccines and basic health care to the world's poorest children.

The GAVI Alliance (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization)  (www.gavialliance.org) was originally formed with a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 

It has gone on to secure support from 17 donor governments and together it has probably helped save more than two million lives.

The work of GAVI is critical to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal on child health, that calls for reducing childhood mortality by two-thirds by the year 2015. 

Every year more than 10 million children die before reaching the age of five and it is estimated that 2.5 million of those deaths could be prevented with currently available or new vaccines.

The GAVI Alliance includes partners of developing countries and donor governments, the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both the industrialized and developing regions, research and technical agencies, NGOs, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 

Andrew Maguire, Ph.D., has a long and distinguished career in public service and international affairs that includes membership in the U.S. Congress, a member of the U.S. Delegation to the U.N. General Assembly and key NGO leadership positions.

He was elected as a Democrat from New Jersey to the U.S. House of Representatives from the 7th district of New Jersey in 1974 and served three two-year terms.  

And he was a member of the United States Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly for five sessions while with the U.S. Department of State.

He served as Advisor on Political and Security Affairs with the U.S. State Department's Mission to the United Nations where he focused on U.S. policy in the Middle East and Africa. 

More recently he has served as CEO of EnterpriseWorks Worldwide and vice president of the World Resources Institute.  

"We are fortunate to have someone of Andy Maguire's immense talents and distinguished background join the GAVI Alliance," said Julian Lob-Levyt, executive secretary of the GAVI Alliance. 

"Dr. Maguire brings with him a history of using innovative and sound business practices to catalyze the capacity and performance of not-for-profit organizations in the United States and other countries. As executive of The GAVI Fund Campaign for Child Immunization, Dr. Maguire’s leadership will be integral in our efforts to obtain additional resources for global immunization."   

Commenting on his new position, Maguire said, "Working to save the lives of children in developing countries through immunization is a great yet humbling assignment. GAVI is amazing because the Alliance and its partners will immunize most of the world's at-risk children in a very few years on a scale that is unprecedented." 

"It is unacceptable that 27 million children still go without immunization every year, putting them at great risk of dying from easily preventable diseases," he emphasized.  

Dr. Maguire was president and CEO of EnterpriseWorks Worldwide, a not-for-profit development corporation helping to alleviate poverty through economic growth in the developing world. 

As vice president for policy affairs at the World Resources Institute he was vice president for policy affairs and directed public policy strategies on global environment issues while working closely with bilateral and multilateral aid agencies, international organizations, and business leaders.   

"We are very excited to have Andy Maguire working on behalf of GAVI,” said Alice P. Albright, GAVI Alliance CFO and head of the Washington office. “His considerable skills as a policy maker and leader in the field of global development will bolster our efforts to accelerate access to life-saving vaccines for the world’s poorest children."  

Dr. Maguire received his bachelor’s degree in religion from Oberlin College and his doctorate in government from Harvard University.  Later in 1983, he was also a fellow at the Institute of Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.   

He is the author of two major books: Bordering on Trouble: Resources and Politics in Latin America and Toward Uhuru in Tanzania: The Politics of Participation as well as numerous articles on international public policy issues.  --  by Dr. Max Stamper

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