The heads of the World Bank (WB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) called on the Group of 20 (G20) countries to remove obstacles and barriers and to increase distribution and financing so that developing countries can access coronavirus vaccines.
In a joint statement, Multilateral organizations have given the G20 four points aimed at improving the delivery of vaccines to developing nations.
The organizations formed a Working Group on Covid-19 Vaccines, Therapeutics and Diagnostics for Development and called on the G-20, "as an urgent step, to adopt the goal of at least having at least 40 percent of the population vaccinated in all countries by the end of 2021, and at least 60 percent by the first half of 2022«.
At the same time, they called for "more vaccine doses to be shared now, ensuring that at least one billion doses are shared with developing countries in 2021 starting immediately," said a joint statement from the multilateral organizations.
They further called on the G20 to “provide financing, including grants and concessional financing, to close residual gaps, including through the ACT-Accelerator.”
The Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT) It is a global collaboration, between multilateral and private international institutions seeking to accelerate the development, production and equitable access to tests, treatments and vaccines.
All of these organizations have joined forces to accelerate the end of the pandemic by supporting the development and equitable distribution of the tests, treatments and vaccines the world needs to reduce mortality and serious illness, restoring full social and economic activity globally in the short term, and facilitating high-level control of COVID-19 disease in the medium term.
Finally, the Working Group called on the G-20 to "remove all barriers to the export of inputs and finished vaccines, and other barriers to supply chain operations«.
In their statement, they highlight that "As many countries struggle with new variants and a third wave of infections, accelerating access to vaccines becomes even more critical to ending the pandemic everywhere and achieving broad-based growth.”
They further stress that they are "deeply concerned about the limited vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics and delivery support available to developing countries."Urgent action is needed now to stop the growing human toll due to the pandemic and to stop further divergence in economic recovery between advanced economies and the rest."
They then noted that a “Task Force has been formed, as a war room to help track, coordinate and promote the delivery of health tools to developing countries and to mobilize relevant national stakeholders and leaders to remove critical obstacles, in support of the priorities set out by the World Bank Group, the IMF, the WHO and the WTO, including in the joint statements of June 1 and 3, and in the $50.000 billion IMF staff proposal.”
Finally, To improve transparency, it was agreed to “collect data on dose requests (by type and quantity), contracts, deliveries (including through donations) and vaccine deployments in low- and middle-income countries, and make them available as part of a shared dashboard.” at country level». (WTO Press Release)
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