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Today Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, and Dr Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, co-hosted the inaugural meeting of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator Facilitation Council.

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Regions: Canada , China, France , Italy , Norway , Rwanda , South Africa , United Kingdom , Uzbekistan

Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Global Health

• Nine CEPI-supported candidate vaccines are part of the COVAX initiative, with a further nine candidates under evaluation, and procurement conversations on-going with additional producers not currently receiving research and development (R&D) funding through COVAX – giving COVAX the largest and most diverse COVID-19 vaccine portfolio in the world
  
• 80 potentially self-financing countries have submitted non-binding expressions of interest to the Gavi-coor

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  Regions: Afghanistan, Argentina, Canada , Chile, China, France , Ireland , Norway , Tonga , United Kingdom , United States , West Bank , Zambia

  Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Energy, Global Health, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation

• Statement on the fourth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

  The fourth meeting of the Emergency Committee convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005) regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) took place on Friday, 31 July 2020 from 12:00 to 17:45 Geneva time (CEST). 

  Proceedings of the meeting

  Members and advisors of the Emergency Committee were convened by vid

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  Regions: United Kingdom

  Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health, Science, Technology, and Innovation

• Study provides comprehensive view of terrestrial venomous snakes and snakebite in the Middle East

  Snakebite envenoming is a common problem in many parts of the world, but little is known about its magnitude in the Arab countries of the Middle East, where cases are not widely reported. The aim is to halve the numbers of deaths and cases of disability due to snakebite envenoming over the next 12 years through a programme that targets affected communities and their health systems, and by ensuring access to safe, effective treatment through increased cooperation, collaboration and partnership at all leve

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  Regions: Jordan , Kuwait , Syria , United Kingdom , Yemen

  Topics: Global Health, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation

• More than 150 countries engaged in COVID-19 vaccine global access facility

  • Seventy-five countries submit expressions of interest to COVAX Facility, joining up to 90 further countries which could be supported by the COVAX Advance Market Commitment (AMC)
  • The COVAX Facility, and the AMC within it, is designed to guarantee rapid, fair and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for every country in the world, rich and poor, to make rapid progress towards slowing the pandemic 
    
  • Interest from governments represen

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    Regions: Argentina, Canada , Norway , United Kingdom

    Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health, Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance, Science, Technology, and Innovation

  • Public statement for collaboration on COVID-19 vaccine development

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    Regions: Argentina, Canada , Chad , China, Norway , United Kingdom

    Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health, Science, Technology, and Innovation

  • WHO and UNICEF to partner on pandemic response through COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund

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    Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health, Science, Technology, and Innovation

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