'When I hear them say, 'Well, we're so comfortable here,' it's like, 'Great, now you can really help us get the rest of the world done,'' said WHO senior adviser Bruce Aylward.
earlier this week."The efforts to provide booster doses should be balanced with the efforts to attain vaccine equity."Aylward coordinates the ACT-Accelerator, a partnership between WHO and other global health bodies to help poorer countries access Covid-19 tools. The effort, which includes the vaccine-focused COVAX, has reached billions of people worldwide but has faced criticism for not acting quickly enough.
Over the next six months, the partnership will aim particularly at delivering vaccines to the roughly one-quarter of the world's healthcare workers and elderly who have still not had a shot, as well as on improving access toIt will also look to the future as Covid is"here to stay," and unless systems are put in place, support will collapse once other industrialized nations also think the pandemic is over, said Aylward.
Although several rich countries refused to support the popular campaign to suspend coronavirus-related patents at the WTO—adopting a watered-down alternative that critics haveas worse than the status quo—other initiatives to expand vaccine manufacturing are underway. That includes the WHO's mRNA Vaccine Technology Transfer Hub, which seeks to facilitate the sharing of know-how and ramp up local production capacity in developing countries.
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