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 07 May 2022]
https://www.airfinity.com/insights
INSIGHTS & COMPANY NEWS
No new digest content identified.
Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group [to 07 May 2022]
https://alleninstitute.org/news-press/
News
No new digest content identified.
BMGF – Gates Foundation [to 07 May 2022]
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-center
Press Releases and Statements
No new digest content identified.
Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute [to 07 May 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
No new digest content identified.
News
No new digest content identified.
Center for Vaccine Ethics and Policy – GE2P2 Global Foundation [to 07 May 2022]
https://centerforvaccineethicsandpolicy.net/
:: Past weekly editions of Vaccines and Global Health: The Week in Review are available here.
:: Informed Consent: A Monthly Review – MAY 2022is now posted here
CEPI – Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations [to 07 May 2022]
New expert appointments to CEPI’s Board and Scientific Advisory Committee
New appointments to CEPI Board and SAC along with announcement of CEPI’s first Global Goodwill Ambassador
News 06 May 2022
Independent External Review of CEPI’s COVID-19 Vaccine Development Agreements Published
The review was carried out by the University of Georgetown’s O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law.
05 May 2022
[See COVID above for detail]
DARPA – Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency [U.S.] [to 07 May 2022
News
No new digest content identified.
Duke Global Health Innovation Center [to 07 May 2022]
No new digest content identified.
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
No new digest content identified.
Emory Vaccine Center [to 07 May 2022]
http://www.vaccines.emory.edu/
Vaccine Center News
No new digest content identified.
European Vaccine Initiative [to 07 May 2022]
Latest News, Events
No new digest content identified.
Evidence Aid [to 07 May 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.
Vaccination status of migrants and refugees in Europe Added May 3, 2022 Citation: Mipatrini D, Stefanelli P, Severoni S, et al. Vaccinations in migrants and refugees: a challenge for European health systems. A systematic review of current scientific evidence. Pathogens and Global Health. 2017;111(2):59-68.
Fondation Merieux [to 07 May 2022]
http://www.fondation-merieux.org/
News, Events
Mérieux Foundation & University of Geneva co-organized event
22nd Advanced Vaccinology Course (ADVAC)
May 9 – 20, 2022 – Les Pensières Center for Global Health, Veyrier-du-Lac (France)
Gavi [to 07 May 2022]
News Releases
No new digest content identified.
GHIT Fund [to 07 May 2022]
https://www.ghitfund.org/newsroom/press
Press Releases
No new digest content identified.
Global Fund [to 07 May 2022]
https://www.theglobalfund.org/en/news/
News & Stories
04 May 2022
COVID-19 Clinical Therapeutics
In this operational update, we would like to give you an update on COVID-19 testing and therapeutics that can be currently supported through the Global Fund’s COVID-19 Response Mechanism (C19RM), following WHO guidelines.
03 May 2022
Global Fund Appoints Susie Rhee as General Counsel and Head of the Legal & Governance Department
The Global Fund is pleased to announce the appointment of Susie Rhee as the new General Counsel and Head of the Legal & Governance Department.
Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness [GloPID-R] [to 07 May 2022]
News
No new digest content identified
Hilleman Laboratories [to 07 May 2022]
News & Insights
No new digest content identified
HHMI – Howard Hughes Medical Institute [to 07 May 2022]
Press Room
Research May 05 2022
Cutting Calories and Eating at the Right Time of Day Leads to Longer Life in Mice
In a study that followed hundreds of mice over their lifespans, calorie restriction combined with time-restricted eating boosted longevity.
Human Vaccines Project [to 07 May 2022]
http://www.humanvaccinesproject.org/
News
HVP COVID Report
Apr 28, 2022
Neil M. Vora: Protecting Nature, Preventing Pandemics
IAVI [to 07 May 2022]
Latest News
May 6, 2022
IAVI salutes the confirmation of John Nkengasong as head of PEPFAR
Nkengasong was a founding leader of PEPFAR and has served on IAVI’s board of directors.
ICRC [to 07 May 2022]
https://www.icrc.org/en/whats-new
What’s New [Selected]
Message on World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day 2022
“Tutti Fratelli!” We are brothers and sisters, exclaimed the women of Castiglione after the devastating battle of Solferino in 1859.
08-05-2022 | Statement
Ukraine: “Level of death, destruction and misery abhorrent and unacceptable”
05-05-2022 | Statement
International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities [ICMRA]
http://www.icmra.info/drupal/en/news
Selected Statements, Press Releases, Research
No new digest content identified.
IFFIm
Press Releases/Announcements
No new digest content identified.
IFRC [to 07 May 2022]
http://media.ifrc.org/ifrc/news/press-releases/
Press Releases [Selected]
Horn of Africa: IFRC Secretary General visits Kenya as worst drought in 40 years looms for millions
06/05/2022 | Press release
Institut Pasteur [to 07 May 2022]
https://www.pasteur.fr/en/press-area
Press Documents
Press release
04.05.2022
HIV: bestowing CD8+ T cells with properties observed in natural controllers
HIV controllers are rare individuals able to control infection naturally without treatment. CD8+ T immune cells play a…
IOM / International Organization for Migration [to 07 May 2022]
http://www.iom.int/press-room/press-releases
News – Selected
No new digest content identified.
ISC / International Science Council [to 07 May 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.
Press Documents
No new digest content identified.
International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS)
News/Events [Selected]
2022 International Day of Immunology
April 26, 2022
IVAC [to 07 May 2022]
Updates; Events
Originally published on ImmunizationEconomics.org (April 27, 2022)
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a new standardized toolkit to assess equity in vaccine coverage. The VERSE Equity Toolkit compares the level of vaccine coverage against the level of equity and quantifies the influence of key sociodemographic factors to inequity.
IVI [to 07 May 2022]
IVI News & Announcements
IVI, SmileGate, partners team up to vaccinate 28,000 people in Nepal
May 4, 2022, SEOUL, Republic of Korea — The International Vaccine Institute (IVI), in collaboration with SmileGate in Korea and Nepalese partners, will vaccinate 28,000 people against cholera to help prevent and control outbreaks in Nepal in May 2022…
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security [to 07 May 2022]
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/news/center-news/
Center News
No new digest content identified.
MSF/Médecins Sans Frontières [to 07 May 2022]
Latest [Selected Announcements]
Tuberculosis
WHO approves MSF MDR-TB trial regimen, but prices must come down
Press Release 4 May 2022
National Academy of Medicine – USA [to 07 May 2022]
News [Selected]
No new digest content identified.
National Academy of Sciences – USA [to 07 May 2022]
http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/
News
No new digest content identified.
National Vaccine Program Office – U.S. HHS [to 07 May 2022]
https://www.hhs.gov/vaccines/about/index.html
Upcoming Meetings/Latest Updates
No new digest content identified.
NIH [to 07 May 2022]
News Releases
No new digest content identified.
OECD [to 07 May 2022]
http://www.oecd.org/newsroom/publicationsdocuments/bydate/
Newsroom/Library
Growth and economic well-being: Fourth quarter 2021, OECD
Household income falls slightly in OECD area in Q4 2021, despite continuing GDP growth
5 May 2022
OXFAM [to 07 May 2022]
Reaction to WTO TRIP’s waiver “outcome”
4 May 2022
Responding to the WTO’s published ‘outcome’ of negotiations over a waiver of Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS), Max Lawson, Head of Inequality Policy for Oxfam and co-chair of the People’s Vaccine Alliance, said:
“This text is a recognition that WTO rules on intellectual property are a clear barrier to ensuring people get the vaccines, tests, and treatments they need. It is a tragedy that it has taken almost two years and millions of deaths to reach this point and a travesty that the action proposed today falls well short of what is needed.
“The text as it stands continues to place pharmaceutical corporate interests over the needs of global health. It adds more unnecessary barriers than existed before negotiations began and failure to act now on treatments and tests is inexcusable.
“This is not the TRIPS waiver supported by over 100 governments. It is not endorsed by any member other than the EU. And it is utterly insufficient for a pandemic that has killed an estimated 20 million people and rising.
“WTO member states must urgently deliver a genuine intellectual property waiver that will turn the tide on global vaccine, test, and treatment inequality and make a difference to controlling this virus. If WTO negotiations cannot deliver that after two years of a deadly pandemic, then we must admit that the institution is not fit for purpose.”
PATH [to 07 May 2022]
https://www.path.org/media-center/
Press Releases
Hanoi, Vietnam, May 3, 2022—A new article published in the Clinical Liver Disease journal presents impactful results from a novel community-based and HIV integrated hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) testing model in Vietnam, a country where 8.8 million people are estimated to be living with HBV and HCV infection, yet 80 to 90 percent are undiagnosed and untreated. These findings are drawn from HepLINK, a PATH-led initiative in partnership with The Hepatitis Fund that seeks to provide learning in ways to best increase access to viral hepatitis screening, diagnosis, and treatment within primary and community health care…
Rockefeller Foundation [to 07 May 2022]
Selected Reports/Press Releases
Apr 28 2022
Press Releases
[See COVID above for detail]
Sabin Vaccine Institute [to 07 May 2022]
http://www.sabin.org/updates/pressreleases
Statements and Press Releases
No new digest content identified.
UNAIDS [to 07 May 2022]
Selected Press Releases/Reports/Statements
5 May 2022
Jamaica commits to improving social protection
3 May 2022
“A litmus test of civilization” – How the war in Ukraine has impacted LGBTI people
UNHCR Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [to 07 May 2022]
http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/media-centre.htmlS
Selected News Releases, Announcements
UNHCR and TikTok launch campaign in solidarity with refugees from Ukraine and beyond
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and TikTok launch a hashtag challenge and live concert series #TheWorldNeeds, using music to bring people together and promote solidarity with refugees
04 May 2022
UNICEF [to 07 May 2022]
https://www.unicef.org/media/press-releases
Press Releases, News Notes, Statements [Selected]
Every day that the war in Ukraine continues is a nightmare for millions of children.
https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/every-day-war-ukraine-continues-nightmare-millions-children
Unitaid [to 07 May 2022]
Featured News
No new digest content identified.
Vaccine Equity Cooperative [nee Initiative] [to 07 May 2022]
News
No new digest content identified.
Vaccination Acceptance & Demand Initiative [Sabin) [to 07 May 2022]
https://www.vaccineacceptance.org/
Announcements, Blog
No new digest content identified.
Vaccine Confidence Project [to 07 May 2022]
http://www.vaccineconfidence.org/
News, Research and Reports
No new digest content identified.
Vaccine Education Center – Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia [to 07 May 2022]
http://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center
News
No new digest content identified.
Wellcome Trust [to 07 May 2022]
News. Opinion, Reports
No new digest content identified.
The Wistar Institute [to 07 May 2022]
https://www.wistar.org/news/press-releases
Press Releases
No new digest content identified.
WFPHA: World Federation of Public Health Associations [to 07 May 2022]
Latest News – Blog
No new digest content identified.
World Bank [to 07 May 2022]
http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/all
Selected News, Announcements
World Bank Increases its COVID-19 Assistance to Solomon Islands
Additional US$8 million to provide immediate support to COVID-19 emergency response, vaccine access and health system strengthening HONIARA, May 2, 2022 – With Solomon Islands’ COVID-19 situation having…
Date: May 02, 2022 Type: Press Release
World Customs Organization – WCO [to 07 May 2022]
Latest News
03 May 2022
World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) [to 07 May 2022]
https://www.oie.int/en/media/news/
Press Releases, Statements
No new digest content identified.
WTO – World Trade Organisation [to 07 May 2022]
http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news_e.htm
WTO News and Events [Selected]
TRIPS Council hears initial reactions to Quad’s outcome document on IP COVID-19 response
6 May 2022
At a meeting of the Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) on 6 May, WTO members discussed the outcome document that has recently emerged from the informal process conducted with the Quad (the European Union, India, South Africa and the United States) for an intellectual property (IP) response to COVID-19. Members also adopted the oral status report that will be submitted by the chair of the TRIPS Council, Ambassador Lansana Gberie of Sierra Leone, to the General Council scheduled for 9-10 May.
[See Milestones above for detail]
WTO, generic drug makers explore cooperation for increased access to therapeutics
2 May 2022
WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the CEO Advisory Committee of the International Generic and Biosimilar Medicines Association (IGBA) held on 2 May a virtual meeting to discuss how to promote international health equity and access to therapeutics. The meeting marked the initial step towards a continuing dialogue aimed at contributing to the fight against the pandemic and securing global public health beyond the current health crisis.
Quad’s outcome document on IP COVID-19 response made public
3 May 2022
WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala put forward on 3 May the outcome document that emerged from the informal process conducted with the Quad (the European Union, India, South Africa and the United States) for an intellectual property response to COVID-19.
[See Milestones above for detail]
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ARM [Alliance for Regenerative Medicine] [to 07 May 2022]
Selected Press Releases
No new digest content identified.
BIO [to 07 May 2022]
https://www.bio.org/press-releases
Press Release
No new digest content identified.
DCVMN – Developing Country Vaccine Manufacturers Network [to 07 May 2022]
News; Upcoming events
No new digest content identified.
ICBA – International Council of Biotechnology Associations [to 07 May 2022]
https://internationalbiotech.org/news/
News
ICBA Statement on Tabled WTO TRIPS Waiver Text
[Undated]
Steve Bates, Chair of ICBA said “Now that the text is open to public scrutiny after its formal proposal by the WTO Director-General, it is clear that what is proposed would do nothing to solve
[See Milestones above for detail]
IFPMA [to 07 May 2022]
http://www.ifpma.org/resources/news-releases/
Selected Press Releases, Statements, Publications
No new digest content identified.
International Generic and Biosimilar Medicines Association [IGBA]
https://www.igbamedicines.org/
News
May 3, 2022
The newly established IGBA CEO Advisory Committee, a forum for generic and biosimilar medicines industry leaders to discuss broad, strategic issues, and to engage and position the industry on a range of critical policy matters, held its inaugural meeting on Monday, May 2 and launched initial discussions with World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
“During the discussions with Dr. Ngozi, members of IGBA’s new CEO Advisory Committee outlined the essential role of generic and biosimilar medicines in global patient care and the significant contribution of the industry during the COVID-19 pandemic,” commented Vivian Frittelli, Chair of the IGBA Management Committee.
“Members of the Advisory Committee welcomed the WTO’s efforts to promote barrier-free trade and protect a resilient global supply chain for medicines, and the importance of promoting a balanced approach to competition and innovation to enable patients to benefit from a competitive pharmaceutical marketplace” Frittelli said. “Achieving greater predictability is a critical underpinning of improved access to medicines, and this will be one area of focus for ongoing discussions and action with the WTO moving forward,” Vivian Frittelli concluded.
International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations – IAPO [to 07 May 2022]
https://www.iapo.org.uk/news/topic/6
Press and media [Selected]
No new digest content identified.
PhRMA [to 07 May 2022]
Latest News [Selected]
