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1 Principles for Shared Doses
SHARE MORE SOONER
The biggest vaccination campaign in history is
underway. More than 1.6 billion doses have been
administered across 176 countries, enough to
vaccinate 10.5% of the global population . But
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distribution is lopsided. Countries and regions with
the highest incomes are getting vaccinated more than
30 times faster than those with the lowest incomes.
The gap between North America and the rest of the
world in Covid-19 vaccination efforts continues to
widen. The immediate answer is for wealthy countries
to share more of their vaccine abundance faster.
THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION ONE FOR ALL AN UPDATED ACTION PLAN FOR GLOBAL COVID-19 VACCINATION
Given the increasing number of authorizations
for Covid-19 vaccines by stringent regulatory
authorities (SRA), some countries have secured
sufficient doses to begin sharing a portion
of those doses with other countries. COVAX
requests countries follow these principles for
sharing doses:
Safe & effective
Shared doses must be of assured quality with,
at a minimum, WHO prequalification/emergency
use listing or licensure/authorization from an SRA.
Early availability
Shared doses should be made available as soon
as possible and ideally concurrently by the
sharing country as it receives vaccine.
Rapidly deployable
Sharing of excess doses should be signaled
as early as possible in the manufacturing
process so doses are shipped directly from
the manufacturer with universal labeling and
packaging, allowing rapid deployment and
maximum shelf-life.
Unearmarked
To facilitate equitable access and in keeping
with the COVAX allocation mechanism,
doses should not be earmarked for specific
geographies or populations.
Substantive quantity
Shared doses should be of sufficient and
predictable volumes to have a substantive impact.
(Source: COVAX)
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