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The single most important priority of the global community is to stop the COVID-19 pandemic in its tracks, to halt its rapid transmission and reverse the...
The single most important priority of the global community is to stop the COVID-19 pandemic in its tracks, to halt its rapid transmission and reverse the trend of consequential global distress. We know that this goal is only achievable when everyone, everywhere can access the health technologies they need for COVID-19 detection, prevention, treatment and response. This pandemic is far from over, socio-economic inequalities have dramatically increased and lives continue to be lost. Now more than ever, international cooperation and solidarity are vital to restoring global securit...
Special press conference to mark the first anniversary of the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool Special press conference to mark the first anniversary of the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool 28 May 2021 18:00 – 19:00 CET Speakers: His Excellency Carlos Alvarado Quesada, President of Costa Rica The Honourable Arancha González Laya, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Spain Professor Jesús Marco, Vice-president, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) The Honourable Meryame Kitir, Minister of Development Cooperation, Belgium The Honourable Budi Gunadi Sadikin, Minister of Health, Indonesia ...
The world is witnessing a tale of two pandemics. France is unwinding lockdown measures, while in India, Nepal, Cambodia and Brazil, Covid-19 cases are ratcheting up. “What matters is the momentum," Health Minister Olivier Veran said earlier this month as he celebrated halving the seven-day moving average of new cases in France. But the global momentum is worrying. According to the World Health Organization, more cases were reported in the last two weeks of April than in the entire first six months of the pandemic. These trends are exacerbated by unconscionable global inequity in access to C...
Lessons In January, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, issued a blunt warning. The world was “on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure,” he said. Wealthy countries were buying up available COVID-19 vaccines, leaving tiny amounts for others—a replay of what happened during the 2009 influenza pandemic. “The price of this failure will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world’s poorest countries,” Tedros said. He was right. Today, some rich countries are vaccinating children as young as 12 years old, who ar...