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4th Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator Facilitation Council meeting 4th Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator Facilitation Council meeting 9 February 2021 \r\n The Facilitation Council provides high-level political leadership and enabling advice to facilitate the work of the COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator,\r\n its global collaborative framework, and its partnerships to ensure the realization of the ACT Accelerator vision: the rapid development, scale-up and equitable dist...

Lib Dems urge UK to share vaccines with poorer countries in parallel with domestic roll out UK called on to share jabs once four million of most vulnerable have both shots 4 February 2021 • 2:43pm Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a bottle of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine on a visit to a Covid-19 vaccination centre in Batley Credit:  WPA Pool / Getty The Liberal Democrats have urged the Government to follow Norways example and share vaccine supplies with other countries "in parallel" with the...

Friday, 5 February 2021, 6:55 am COVID-19 has had a devastating social and economic impact everywhere, but particularly in developing countries. The absence of a comprehensive global strategy to ensure vaccine access in low and middle-income countries threatens to prolong the pandemic, escalating inequalities within and between countries and delaying the global economic recovery. OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría will discuss how to ensure fair access to vaccines and build resilience in de...

   H.E. Prof Sarah Agbor Anyang, AUC, HRST Commissioner  H.E. Ms Amira Elfadil, AUC, Social Affairs Commissioner  Ms Alice Albright, CEO, Global Partnership for Education  Mr. Youssou N’Dour, Artist and former Minister of Culture, Senegal The AU’s theme for 2021 “ Arts, Culture and Heritage: Levers for Building the Africa We Want:” gives AU Member States the opportunity to work towards removing the foothold of gender-based stereotypes and harmful social norms hindering the promotio...

More than 80 million Covid-19 vaccine doses have been distributed around the world so far. Only 55 — 55! — have gone to people in low-income countries. In fact, just one country: Guinea. Those 55 doses in Guinea don’t even represent “the start of a ‘real’ national vaccination rollout,” said Edouard Mathieu, head of data at Oxford University’s Our World in Data, which has been tracking the global vaccine effort. Rather, a few Guinean public officials were vaccinated at the end o...

Rich countries are hoarding Covid-19 vaccines Vox.com 1/29/2021 Julia Belluz © Fred Tanneau/AFP via Getty Images Medical staff members in France bring two boxes containing Covid-19 vaccines to Ile d’Hoedic, a small island of the western coast of France on January 29. The island has approximately 100 inhabitants in the winter months. More than 80 million Covid-19 vaccine doses have been distributed around the world so far. Only 55 — 55! — have gone to people in low-in...

Governments Sign Secret Vaccine Deals. Here’s What They Hide. Multibillion-dollar contracts give drug makers liability shields, patent ownership and leeway on delivery dates and pricing — and promises that much of it will not be made public. A health care worker administering the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at a nursing home in Reims, France, earlier this month.Credit...Andrea Mantovani for The New York Times BRUSSELS — When members of the European Parliament sat down this month to r...

NORAD Conference 2021, panel: Vaccine nationalism and global distribution NORAD Conference 2021, panel: Vaccine nationalism and global distribution Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) 26 January 2021 Mr Bård Vegar Solhjell, Director General of Norad, Dear colleagues and friends, Good morning, and thank you for the invitation to address you today. And thank you for Norway’s support for WHO and global health, in the past year and over many years. Norway has shown outst...

South Africa Is Paying Twice as Much as EU Countries for COVID-19 Vaccines It raises an important question about equity of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Why Global Citizens Should Care The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the health and socio-economic development of middle- and low-income countries. The rollout of vaccines can help to combat the virus and end its negative impacts on everything from education access to gender equality. The United Nations’ Global Goal 3 calls f...

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's decision to join the COVAX vaccine facility could make a "huge difference" to the financin...