You know how to immunize kids, you know how to give bed nets.

UNICEF helped to mount extensive campaigns to immunize children against measles and provide vitamin A.

If we immunize 960 of them, it's as if we had immunized a hundred percent of them.

I gave you three simple answers to three questions Give lentils to immunize people, provide free bed nets, deworm children.

Since it was formed in 2000, GAVI has already helped to immunize more than 370 million children against a range of deadly diseases. As a result, we have prevented 5.5 million deaths, and we aim to immunize a further 245 million children and save five million more lives by 2015.

So, if we have a population of a thousand people, and we want to make the population immune to a pathogen, we don't have to immunize every single person.

This agenda emphasizes intercultural communication as the best way to break down prejudices and negative clichés on both sides. From the point of view of security policy, intercultural communication is intended to immunize those sections of the Muslim community that are deemed to be potentially receptive to extremist propaganda, with the clear aim being to prevent their radicalization and recruitment to jihad .

Such price reductions have and will continue to play a crucial role in saving the lives of millions of children and achieving the Millennium Development Goal of reducing child mortality by two thirds. To date, GAVI has helped countries immunize more than 13 million children against pneumococcal disease and five million children against rotavirus, with plans to strengthen its efforts in countries where immunization coverage is below 70 .

Investment in vaccines is not about short term savings, either in terms of lives or economic costs it is about providing children with lifetime protection and the ability to realize their full potential. So, while reducing mortality is already reason enough to want to immunize every child on the planet, now we have the added motivation that we are not just saving lives, but also helping to improve many more lives in the process.