Editor’s Note:
Careful readers will note that the number and range of organizations now monitored in our Announcements section below has grown as the impacts of the pandemic have spread across global economies, supply chains and programmatic activity of multilateral agencies and INGOs.
Airfinity [to 09 Apr 2022]
https://www.airfinity.com/insights
INSIGHTS & COMPANY NEWS
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Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group [to 09 Apr 2022]
https://alleninstitute.org/news-press/
News
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BMGF – Gates Foundation [to 09 Apr 2022]
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-center
Press Releases and Statements
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Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute [to 09 Apr 2022]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute is a non-profit biotech organization. Our mission is to develop products to fight malaria, tuberculosis, and diarrheal diseases—three major causes of mortality, poverty, and inequality in developing countries. The world has unprecedented scientific tools at its disposal; now is the time to use them to save the lives of the world’s poorest people
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News
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Center for Vaccine Ethics and Policy – GE2P2 Global Foundation [to 09 Apr 2022]
https://centerforvaccineethicsandpolicy.net/
:: Past weekly editions and posting of all segments of Vaccines and Global Health: The Week in Review are available here.
:: Informed Consent: A Monthly Review – April 2022is now posted here
:: Patients, Politics, Pressure :: Pharma Stays Steady [Mostly] In Russia Sanctions Context
Observations at 30 March 2022 David R Curry
CEPI – Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations [to 09 Apr 2022]
CEPI invites vaccine developers and manufacturers to join global outbreak response network
CEPI funding will support trial of UB-612 vaccine candidate as a ‘mix-and-match’ booster dose.
06 Apr 2022
DARPA – Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency [U.S.] [to 09 Apr 2022
News
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Duke Global Health Innovation Center [to 09 Apr 2022]
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The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) aims to accelerate the development of new or improved drugs, vaccines, microbicides and diagnostics against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria as well as other poverty-related and neglected infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on phase II and III clinical trials
News
07 April 2022
07 April 2022
Emory Vaccine Center [to 09 Apr 2022]
http://www.vaccines.emory.edu/
Vaccine Center News
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European Vaccine Initiative [to 09 Apr 2022]
Latest News, Events
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Evidence Aid [to 09 Apr 2022]
Evidence Aid aims to save lives and livelihoods in disasters by providing decision-makers with the best available evidence and by championing its use.
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Fondation Merieux [to 09 Apr 2022]
http://www.fondation-merieux.org/
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News Releases
8 April 2022
World leaders commit US$ 4.8 billion to help Break COVID Now
[See COVID above for detail]
7 April 2022
Nepal introduces Typhoid vaccine into routine immunisation across the country
:: The Ministry of Health and Population, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, UNICEF, WHO and other partners are collaborating on the nationwide typhoid vaccine introduction including a catch-up campaign, which seeks to vaccinate all children from the age of 15 months to 15 years to protect them from typhoid fever.
:: The campaign aims to reach 95% coverage of nearly 7.5 million children with the typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) and simultaneously identify ‘zero-dose’ children and those that have missed other routine vaccines.
7 April 2022
New Gavi Risk Sharing Partnership with MedAccess and the Open Society Foundations to help meet country demand for COVID-19 vaccines
:: Gavi, MedAccess and the Open Society Foundations announce a new partnership to create an innovative Risk Sharing Facility to support the COVAX Cost-Sharing Mechanism.
:: The partnership aims to build on intensive efforts by Gavi to extend its suite of innovative financing instruments to help donors and countries stretch their available resources as the pandemic shifts and to protect against future shocks. The Facility’s instruments also represent a pathway and toolkit to address future global health crises.
:: This new partnership comes as Gavi seeks to raise additional funds to support COVAX. April 8 will see Germany, Indonesia and Senegal co-host the 2022 Gavi COVAX AMC Summit, where governments, international organisations, civil society and the private sector will come together to renew their commitment to global vaccination.
6 April 2022
Indonesia and Senegal to co-host 2022 Gavi COVAX AMC Summit, together with Germany
https://www.ghitfund.org/newsroom/press
Press Releases
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https://www.theglobalfund.org/en/news/
News & Stories
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Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness [GloPID-R] [to 09 Apr 2022]
News
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Hilleman Laboratories [to 09 Apr 2022]
News & Insights
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HHMI – Howard Hughes Medical Institute [to 09 Apr 2022]
Press Room
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Human Vaccines Project [to 09 Apr 2022]
http://www.humanvaccinesproject.org/
News
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IAVI [to 09 Apr 2022]
Collaboration to target bacterial and viral pathogens including HIV, SARS-CoV-2, antimicrobial-resistant pathogens, and tuberculosis
NEW YORK, NY & CAMBRIDGE, MA — APRIL 7, 2022 — Moderna, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRNA), a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, and the nonprofit scientific research organization IAVI today announced a new collaboration to employ mRNA technology to meet the challenge of a range of global health threats. These diseases — HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), antimicrobial-resistant enteric infections, and COVID-19 — are estimated to have caused at least 95 million new infections and more than 4 million deaths in 2020 alone. The collaboration combines the power of Moderna’s mRNA platform and IAVI’s expertise in discovery and product development to advance vaccines and antibodies designed to be globally accessible, especially in low-income countries where the targeted diseases have high incidence and prevalence….
ICRC [to 09 Apr 2022]
https://www.icrc.org/en/whats-new
What’s New [Selected]
The use of force in law enforcement operations
States often face situations in which their officials have to use force to maintain or restore public security, law and order in armed conflicts or situations of violence that do not meet the threshold of applicability of international humanitarian l
06-04-2022 | Legal factsheet
What is international humanitarian law?
International humanitarian law (IHL) is a set of rules that seeks, for humanitarian reasons, to limit the effects of armed conflict.
06-04-2022 | Legal factsheet
International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities [ICMRA]
http://www.icmra.info/drupal/en/news
Selected Statements, Press Releases, Research
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IFFIm
Press Releases/Announcements
IFFIm “essential” to continued financing for the COVAX AMC
05 Apr 2022
… IFFIm’s established, in-demand vaccine bonds have already accelerated funding from donors to aid the fight against COVID-19. So far in this pandemic, over US$ 1.23 billion in new pledges have been committed to IFFIm for the COVAX AMC. IFFIm has frontloaded US$ 975 raised on capital markets backed by those donations in 2021.
…By harnessing its frontloading capability, IFFIm can be a valuable financial tool helping Gavi and donors to respond as efficiently and effectively as possible to upcoming global health challenges without any immediate impact on donors’ fiscal or official development assistance (ODA) positions.
“IFFIm has a crucial capability – bringing pledged money forward in time and putting it to work immediately. IFFIm was created 15 years ago to accelerate childhood vaccination, and was hugely successful at it. Now it’s an essential part of funding the fight to break COVID,” said Ken Lay, IFFIm Board Chair. “Working with Gavi and the World Bank, we expect it can do even more.”
IFRC [to 09 Apr 2022]
http://media.ifrc.org/ifrc/news/press-releases/
People affected by crises everywhere deserve same strong support provided to Ukraine response
Geneva, 6 April 2022 – The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) calls for solidarity with people affected by crises everywhere as the response to the conflict in Ukraine shows the way.
The support from people and donors around the world demonstrates what is possible and illustrates the good practice essential in any humanitarian crisis. At the same time, the massive differences depending on where a crisis occurs and who it affects have been thrown into stark relief…
Institut Pasteur [to 09 Apr 2022]
https://www.pasteur.fr/en/press-area
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IOM / International Organization for Migration [to 09 Apr 2022]
http://www.iom.int/press-room/press-releases
News – Selected
News
08 Apr 2022
15 Million People Face Humanitarian Crisis Due to Drought in the Horn of Africa
News
05 Apr 2022
7.1 Million People Displaced by the War in Ukraine: IOM Survey
ISC / International Science Council [to 09 Apr 2022]
https://council.science/current/
ISC is a non-governmental organization with a unique global membership that brings together 40 international scientific Unions and Associations and over 140 national and regional scientific organizations including Academies and Research Councils.
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IVAC [to 09 Apr 2022]
World Immunization Week 2022: Webinars
April 2022
During World Immunization Week 2022 the International Vaccine Access Center, along with global immunization and indigenous health partners, will host a three webinars. Registration is free, and we encourage all to sign up and save these dates on their calendars. Enabling Equitable Access to COVID-19 Vaccines for Indigenous Populations When: April 26, 2022 from 6:00 […]
IVI [to 09 Apr 2022]
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Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security [to 09 Apr 2022]
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/news/center-news/
Center News
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Co-Hosts United States–India Strategic Dialogue on Biosecurity to Discuss Lessons from the Second Year of National Pandemic Responses
April 7, 2022
MSF/Médecins Sans Frontières [to 09 Apr 2022]
Latest [Selected Announcements]
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National Academy of Medicine – USA [to 09 Apr 2022]
News
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National Academy of Sciences – USA [to 09 Apr 2022]
http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/
News
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National Vaccine Program Office – U.S. HHS [to 09 Apr 2022]
https://www.hhs.gov/vaccines/about/index.html
Upcoming Meetings/Latest Updates
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http://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases
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OECD [to 09 Apr 2022]
http://www.oecd.org/newsroom/publicationsdocuments/bydate/
Newsroom/Library
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PATH [to 09 Apr 2022]
https://www.path.org/media-center/
Press Releases
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Sabin Vaccine Institute [to 09 Apr 2022]
http://www.sabin.org/updates/pressreleases
Statements and Press Releases
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UNAIDS [to 09 Apr 2022]
Selected Press Releases/Reports/Statements
7 April 2022
7 April 2022
Urgently needed HIV services are supporting Ukrainian refugees in the Republic of Moldova
6 April 2022
United Kingdom parliamentary group visits UNAIDS to strengthen collaboration
6 April 2022
Young people’s monitoring of progress towards 2025 targets begins second phase
UNHCR Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [to 09 Apr 2022]
http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/media-centre.htmlS
Selected News Releases, Announcements
UNHCR redoubles its aid inside Ukraine and the region
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Matthew Saltmarsh – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
08 April 2022
https://www.unicef.org/media/press-releases
Press Releases, News Notes, Statements [Selected]
Featured News
07 April 2022
On World Health Day, Unitaid rallies around the “Our Planet, our Health” campaign
Geneva – Unitaid joins partners to observe World Health Day 2022 today, reaffirming its strong commitment to contribute to keep humans and the planet healthy.
Climate change has been identified as the single biggest health threat of the 21st century, already harming the world’s most vulnerable people and menacing to undermine decades of progress in global health…
Vaccine Equity Cooperative [nee Initiative] [to 09 Apr 2022]
News
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Vaccination Acceptance & Demand Initiative [Sabin) [to 09 Apr 2022]
https://www.vaccineacceptance.org/
Announcements, Blog
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Vaccine Confidence Project [to 09 Apr 2022]
http://www.vaccineconfidence.org/
News, Research and Reports
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Vaccine Education Center – Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia [to 09 Apr 2022]
http://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center
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Wellcome Trust [to 09 Apr 2022]
News. Opinion, Reports
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The Wistar Institute [to 09 Apr 2022]
https://www.wistar.org/news/press-releases
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WFPHA: World Federation of Public Health Associations [to 09 Apr 2022]
Latest News – Blog
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World Bank [to 09 Apr 2022]
http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/all
Date: April 08, 2022 Type: Statement
World Customs Organization – WCO [to 09 Apr 2022]
Latest News
08 April 2022
Ethics and Transparency: A commitment for all
With the aim of exchanging best practices and motivating Customs Administrations to promote ethics through WCO tools, the Webinar “Ethics and Transparency – A Commitment for All” was organized by the Private Sector Consultative Group and the WCO Regional Vice-Chair for the Americas and the Caribbean…
World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) [to 09 Apr 2022]
https://www.oie.int/en/media/news/
Press Releases, Statements
Acting for better aquatic animal health and welfare worldwide
3 April 2022 France, Paris
The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) joins the World Aquatic Animal Day celebrations by raising awareness on the need to maintain sustainable aquatic ecosystems to ensure a better future for all.
Over 50 million people worldwide depend on fisheries and aquaculture for their livelihoods. However, aquatic animal diseases can jeopardise the economic and environmental sustainability of this source of income. For instance, on a global scale, disease outbreaks cost the aquaculture industry over US$6 billion per year…
WTO – World Trade Organisation [to 09 Apr 2022]
http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news_e.htm
WTO News and Events [Selected]
Members welcome COVID-19 trade-related measures report, agree on future experience sharing
31 March 2022
Members welcomed the latest update on export restrictions and prohibitions and trade-easing measures relating to the COVID-19 pandemic, which was presented by the WTO Secretariat at a meeting of the Committee on Market Access on 30-31 March. The Committee also heard about the first experience-sharing session on COVID-19-related goods, where members sought to better understand how they define lists of “essential goods” to combat the pandemic and the challenges they face with tariff classification.
DDG Ellard: WTO is essential to the rules-based international order
31 March 2022
In her address to the Steering Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union on 31 March, Deputy Director-General Angela Ellard provided an overview of the state of negotiations in the run-up to the 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12). She also highlighted the importance of the rules based international order and multilateralism, particularly in light of the war in Ukraine, and called on parliamentarians to help “make the world safer and more prosperous through trade”. The full text of her remarks is below.
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ARM [Alliance for Regenerative Medicine] [to 09 Apr 2022]
Selected Press Releases
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BIO [to 09 Apr 2022]
https://www.bio.org/press-releases
Press Releases, Letters, Testimony, Comments [Selected]
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DCVMN – Developing Country Vaccine Manufacturers Network [to 09 Apr 2022]
No new digest content identified.
ICBA – International Council of Biotechnology Associations [to 09 Apr 2022]
https://internationalbiotech.org/news/
News
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http://www.ifpma.org/resources/news-releases/
Selected Press Releases, Statements, Publications
Largest pharmaceutical industry-backed collective venture fund tackling antimicrobial resistance announces first portfolio investments
April 4, 2022, Geneva – The international trade body representing the biopharmaceutical industry (IFPMA) today welcomes the announcement of the AMR Action Fund’s first portfolio investments. The Fund is the world’s largest public-private partnership investing in biotech companies that are developing antibiotics, involving more than 20 leading biopharmaceutical companies who raised the majority of the approximately US $1 billion when the Fund was launched in 2020. IFPMA played an instrumental role conceiving the Fund in collaboration with the European Investment Bank, the Wellcome Trust and the World Health Organization.
The announcement marks an important milestone for the Fund, which has as its goal to invest in the development of between two and four new antibiotics by 2030. New antibiotics are critical to helping stem the rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which is a leading cause of death worldwide. At least 1.27 million deaths per year are directly attributable to infections that have grown resistant to existing antibiotics, with an additional 4.95 million deaths associated with resistant infections…
[See AMR Action Fund announcements in Perspectives above]
International Generic and Biosimilar Medicines Association [IGBA]
https://www.igbamedicines.org/
News
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International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations – IAPO [to 09 Apr 2022]
https://www.iapo.org.uk/news/topic/6
Press and media [Selected]
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PhRMA [to 09 Apr 2022]
Latest News [Selected]
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