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Grenada is part of WHO ACT Accelerator

This story was posted 6 years ago
24 August 2020
in Health
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Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the WHO
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by Linda Straker

  • Grenada joined Access to Covid-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator
  • ACT Accelerator is global collaboration on Covid-19 tests, treatments and vaccines
  • COVAX Global Vaccine Facility is largest and most diverse Covid-19 vaccine portfolio

Health Minister, Nickolas Steele, has confirmed that Grenada is one of 172 countries that has accepted the request from the World Health Organisation (WHO) to join the vaccine arm of “The Access to Covid-19 Tools.”

The Access to Covid-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator is a new, groundbreaking global collaboration to accelerate development, production, and equitable access to Covid-19 tests, treatments, and vaccines.

“Yes, we are part of the 172 countries who received the request and accepted,” Steele said on Monday, 24 August 2020. “It is not costing us financially,” he added.

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the WHO, in a news conference on Monday morning (Grenada time) announced that most of the organisation’s members are engaging the COVAX Global Vaccine Facility. The WHO has 194 member states – all of the member states of the United Nations except for Liechtenstein, plus the Cook Islands and Niue. A state becomes a full member of WHO by ratifying the treaty known as the Constitution of the World Health Organisation.

“Last week I sent a letter to all member states requesting them to join the vaccine arm of the ACT accelerator. I am pleased to announce that 172 countries have now engaged with the COVAX Global Vaccine Facility which has the largest and most diverse Covid-19 vaccine portfolio in the world,” Dr Ghebreyesus said.

“At present, there are nine vaccines that are part of this dynamic portfolio, which is constantly being reviewed and optimised to ensure access to the best possible range of products. Even now discussions are ongoing with 4 more producers and a further 9 vaccines are currently under evaluation for the longer term,” he explained in the new conference which was carried live via the WHO Facebook page.

“The facility is critical. It’s the critical mechanism for joined procurement across multiple vaccines so whatever vaccine is proved to be safe all countries within the facility will access them. Most importantly it is the mechanism to enable a globally coordinated roll-out. This is in the best interest of all countries even those that have invested with individual manufacturers independently,” the Director-General told the thousands viewing and listening to the live news conference.

“We are working with vaccine manufacturers to provide all countries that join the effort, timely and equitable access to all vaccines, licensed and approved. This does not just pool risk, it also means that prices will be kept as low as possible,” said Ghebreyesus.

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Tags: access to covid-19 tools acceleratorcoronaviruscovax global vaccine facilitycovid-19linda strakernickolas steeletedros adhanom ghebreyesus

Comments 3

  1. James S says:
    6 years ago

    Several points need to be made here:
    1. The evidence is abundantly clear that the WHO has an evil agenda. Why is anyone still listening to them?
    2. There is no such thing as “Public Health” with government policies driving pharma based conventional medicine to be the 3rd leading cause of death in the USA and other western nations.
    3. Multiple Unalienable rights are violated by forcing a vaccine on persons against their will. This constitutes assault with a deadly weapon and can legally be resisted in kind.

  2. Concerned Black Man says:
    6 years ago

    So we are part of the people they will experiment on. There has been no part in time our race has accepted “free healthcare ” and it has ended well for us. Do your research. Remember Tuskegee experiment. And the health minister has volunteered the people for this without their consent. Hope he is first to take it.

    • Sorry fi marga dog says:
      6 years ago

      So true, nuff black people are still sleep walking and haven’t woken up yet

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