Read the full statement from the United Nations here. The UN and partners have urged countries to take urgent action to address what they have described as the “infodemic” that has surfaced in tandem with the COVID-19 pandemic, both in the real world and online. The pandemic is the first in history in which technology … Read More
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Enroll in Upcoming Vaccine Economics Online Course
The Teaching Vaccine Economics Everywhere (TVEE) training workshop will now be available online and is open to participants free-of-charge. Health economists from universities around the world have developed an online course to strengthen skills related to economics and financing of national immunization programs and to improve the sustainability of vaccine delivery in low and middle-income … Read More
Training Opportunity for LNCT members: Social media training for immunization communications
LNCT countries are invited to join a special social media training program hosted by the WHO’s Vaccine Safety Net and Facebook. Over five weeks, you’ll learn how to build an audience on Facebook and successfully promote vaccine and immunization information to targeted audiences. Topics we’ll cover in training include: Content strategy for a successful Facebook … Read More
172 countries & multiple candidate vaccines engaged in COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility
Geneva/Oslo, 24 August 2020 – 172 economies are now engaged in discussions to potentially participate in COVAX, a global initiative aimed at working with vaccine manufacturers to provide countries worldwide equitable access to safe and effective vaccines, once they are licensed and approved. COVAX currently has the world’s largest and most diverse COVID-19 vaccine portfolio – including nine … Read More
COVAX Facility Provides Global Equitable Access to COVID-19 Vaccines
The COVAX Facility — a collaboration created to guarantee quick and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines throughout the world — has garnered the interest of 75 countries and plans to support as many as 90 lower-income countries through Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance’s Advance Market Commitment (AMC). The COVAX Facility together with the AMC is designed to guarantee … Read More
LNCT Member Newsletter July 2020
LNCT Updates Materials from Two Recent LNCT Webinars Now Available Online On June 23, LNCT held a webinar, Assessing Bottlenecks to Adequate and Predictable Vaccine Financing. The World Bank presented their tool which aims to help country counterparts pinpoint the root causes of bottlenecks that affect adequate and reliable vaccine financing. The materials from the webinar, including … Read More
New Evidence Shows Investments in Vaccination Produce Even Greater Returns than Previously Thought
This article originally appeared on Gavi’s website. The Decade of Vaccine Economics (DoVE) Project, carried out by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) for nearly ten years, has computed the return-on-investment for vaccines preventing ten infectious diseases in 94 low- and middle-income countries, including 73 countries that have received support from … Read More
92 low- and middle-income economies eligible to get access to COVID-19 vaccines through Gavi COVAX AMC
Geneva, 31 July 2020 – A total of 92 low- and middle-income countries and economies will be able to access COVID-19 vaccines through Gavi’s COVAX Advance Market Commitment (AMC), the Gavi Board agreed yesterday. The Board also agreed that the Gavi secretariat will host and administer the COVAX Facility, the umbrella mechanism to which 78 countries have already submitted … Read More
Keeping Routine Immunization Going During COVID-19 in Indonesia
The Jakarta local government implemented large-scale social restriction, such as closing public spaces, restricting public transport and limiting travel to and from the rest of the country during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this Q&A that Gavi conducted with Dr Vertando Halim, Coordinator of Expanded Program on Immunization, Jakarta, Indonesia, we hear about the challenges the Jakarta government faced … Read More
How Digital Tools are Helping Pakistan Monitor Routine Immunization During the Pandemic
In Pakistan, urban communities were the first to feel the impact of COVID-19. But the virus has spread to all corners of the country to such an extent that officials have been debating if a second lockdown is needed to stop further transmission. A Gavi-supported digital immunization registry has helped keep track of vaccination activities to make sure … Read More