COVID-19 vaccine scheme for world’s poorest pushes for delivery slowdown COVAX, the World Health Organization-led scheme, wants between 400 and 600 million fewer vaccines doses than initially contracted…
Gavi, MedAccess and Open Society Foundations partners to help countries procure additional COVID-19… The partnership aims to build on intensive efforts by Gavi to extend its suite of innovative financing instruments to help donors…
G7 pledges 870 million COVID-19 vaccine doses Of these, at least half to be delivered by the end of 2021 G7 leaders have pledged to share COVID-19 vaccine doses…
WHO urges countries to accelerate equitable access to COVID-19 technologies Urges countries to build a fairer, healthier world post-COVID-19, issues five calls for action on World Health Day 2021 including…
AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 shot gets WHO emergency nod AstraZeneca hopes that in the first half of 2021, more than 300 million doses of the vaccine will be made available to 145…
Healthcare in India: Changing times In the run up to the Union budget, Sidharrth Shankar, Partner, J Sagar Associates points out how to counter the pandemic’s…
World on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure: WHO director general Leaders urge equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines at 148th session of WHO Executive Board meeting
HMD sends first shipment of 56 million syringes to COVAX To dispatch next shipment of 28 million syringes by end October