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  • We acknowledge the urgency of catalysing a step-change in political support and financing for the ACT- Accelerator in order to enable it to deliver on its mission of accelerating the discovery and deployment of new COVID-19 tools to all people, everywhere.

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    Regions: Norway , South Africa

    Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health

  • 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

  • The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched target product profiles to drive the rapid development of novel tuberculosis (TB) preventive treatment today. The target product profiles characterise the most important product attributes to be considered for developing the best suited TB prevention treatments in future.

    One quarter of the global population is estimated to be infected with TB and are at greater risk of developing TB disease, especially those with weakened immunity. Treatment of T

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    Regions: Canada , France , Italy , United Kingdom

    Topics: 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

    • Member States have adopted the global strategy for TB research and innovation through an unprecedented written silence procedure of the 73rd session of the World Health Assembly (WHA) last week. The global strategy was developed to support efforts by governments and other partners

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

    • A plane carrying 20 tonnes of WHO health supplies has landed in Beirut, Lebanon, to support the treatment of patients injured by the massive blast that occurred in the city on 4 August. The supplies will cover 1000 trauma interventions and 1000 surgical interventions for people suffering from injuries and burns resulting from the blast.

      The shipment was airlifted from WHO’s logistics hub in Dubai earlier this afternoon using a plane donated by the Government of the United Arab Emirates, a key

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      Regions: Lebanon

      Topics: Coronavirus (COVID-19), Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance

    • Launching today, the COVID-19 Law Lab initiative gathers and shares legal documents from over 190 countries across the world to help states establish and implement strong legal frameworks to manage the pandemic. The goal is to ensure that laws protect the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities and that they adhere to international human rights standards.

      The new Lab (at www.COVIDLawLab.org) is a joint project of United Nations D

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      Regions: United Kingdom

      Topics: Climate and Environment, Combating Drugs and Crime, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Economic Prosperity and Trade Policy, Global Health, Human Rights and Democracy, Science, Technology, and Innovation

      • 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

      • WHO and UNICEF call for immediate efforts to vaccinate all children as new data shows that, before the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine coverage stalled at 85 per cent for nearly a decade, with 14 million unvaccinated infants yearly

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        Regions: Ethiopia , Haiti , Nepal

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

      • A special #EndTB Webinar organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) to provide key updates on recently released new WHO guidance on rapid diagnostics and drug-resistant TB treatment. The aim of the webinar is to facilitate better understanding of the guidance to enable its rapid uptake in countries by national programmes and other key stakeholders. This will translate to earlier access to quality diagnosis and treatment, and better outcomes for the millions affected by TB and drug-resistant TB.

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        Regions: United Kingdom

        Topics: Global Health, Science, Technology, and Innovation

      • WHO Director-General today announced the initiation of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPR) to evaluate the world’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

        In remarks to WHO Member States, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the Panel will be co-chaired by former Prime Minister of New Zea

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        Regions: Liberia , New Zealand

        Topics: Climate and Environment, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Global Health

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

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