Global health

IMF and global health leaders call for a strategic shift in COVID-19 response

The international covid response mechanism, the ACT-Accelerator, has focused mainly on vaccines to the detriment of other health measures needed to fight the pandemic. Economists at the International Monetary...

News April 29, 2022

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Donors pledge USD 1.5b to fight next pandemic, ODA-eligibility of funding is up in the air

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI) has raised USD 1.5 billion for the next five...

News March 10, 2022

COVAX and the unfulfilled promise of vaccine sharing

The global vaccine initiative COVAX aimed to procure 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine in 2021 to accelerate...

Opinion March 07, 2022

Unsolved dispute over counting COVID vaccine donations as aid leaves loopholes

After seven months of wrangling about how to report COVID-19 vaccines donated to developing countries...

News February 25, 2022

Donors ignore urgent pandemic funding appeal, covid response is ‘flying on fumes’

Donors have given only 5 per cent of the cash most urgently needed this year to finance covid tools for...

News February 10, 2022

Interview. New WHO special envoy on covid: Yodi walks into the lion’s den

Ayoade Alakija has been one of the harshest critics of the international pandemic response effort – the...

News January 25, 2022

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IMF analysis reveals staggeringly unequal delivery of vaccines by COVAX

The IMF Pandemic Response Task Force’s analysis of vaccine deliveries to developing countries through...

News January 21, 2022

New global health research hub. Korea-based vaccine developer to establish branch office in Stockholm

The international organisation IVI headquartered in Seoul, which develops vaccines for poor-country diseases,...

News January 12, 2022

OECD donors fail to agree on rules for reporting covid vaccine donations as aid

Despite efforts to reach agreement about rules for reporting COVID-19 vaccine donations as aid, 2021...

News December 31, 2021

Secrecy surrounding Sida’s SEK 450 million guarantee for UNICEF vaccine procurement

Despite Sweden’s strong freedom of information laws, details of a Swedish guarantee to UNICEF for procurement...

Business December 20, 2021

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