One year of COVID-19 in Somalia and the arrival of first vaccine shipment through COVAX
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WHO’s work reflects show of strength, resilience and working together to save lives, prevent fragile health system from breaking down and support recovery
Mogadishu, 16 March 2020 – One year after the first case of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was officially confirmed in Somalia, the Federal and State Governments of Somalia, in collaboration with World Health Organization (WHO), and other United Nations partners, are reflecting on the lives lost to the disease, while taking stock of crucial lessons learned, and huge strides made as the health system prepares to recover from the devastating impact of COVID-19.
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The harshest critics of the World Bank s experiment have questioned whether it’s appropriate to tie responsibility for public health to private investment at all.
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By Tracy Alloway and Tasos Vossos
In late January 2015, just after the deadliest outbreak of Ebola in history, then-World Bank President Jim Yong Kim stood in front of a group of Georgetown University students and professors to introduce a new approach to fighting pandemics.
Fresh from the annual gathering of power brokers and policy makers in Davos, Kim described a new type of financial product – “pandemic bonds” – that he hoped would persuade private investors to swell the World Bank’s coffers. Quoting former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, Kim said: “Investing in health is the right thing to do ethically and morally, but it s also the right thing to do if you can do basic arithmetic.”