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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 distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics, underpinned by relevant strengthening o...

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 Norway's example and share vaccine supplies with other countries "in parallel" with the domestic rollout. In a letter seen by the Telegraph, the Liberal Democrat leadership urged Num...

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 developing countries – two big tests for global solidarity – with World Health Organization Direc...

   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 promotion of inclusive education and training especially for STEM & STEAM studies. This 5 th High Level Dial...

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 of December — with the Russian Sputnik V vaccine — on an experimental basis, the Associated Press...