{"id":4106,"date":"2020-08-30T19:33:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T00:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heartandvascularmed.com\/?p=4106"},"modified":"2020-08-30T19:33:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T00:33:31","slug":"paho-director-asks-prosur-leaders-to-participate-in-initiative-to-fast-track-access-to-covid-19-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahvmed.com\/?p=4106","title":{"rendered":"PAHO Director asks PROSUR leaders to participate in initiative to fast track access to COVID-19 vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Washington, D.C., August 28, 2020 (PAHO)\u2014 The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Carissa F. Etienne, yesterday invited the PROSUR block of South American presidents to work together on access to vaccines for COVID-19.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe that your support and participation in the COVAX Initiative will provide the best opportunity to fast track access to COVID-19 vaccines nationally and regionally throughout the Americas,\u201d she stated during a virtual meeting of the PROSUR bloc, which includes Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay and Peru. PAHO can provide guidance and support accelerated access to vaccines through its country offices and the Regional Office in Washington, she added.<\/p>\n

Under the World Health Organization\u2019s Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator, the COVAX Facility will negotiate on behalf of many countries worldwide with the producers of all promising COVID-19 vaccine candidates. <\/p>\n

PAHO is \u201cleveraging the PAHO Revolving Fund and its participating Member States as a unified bloc and viable procurement mechanism through COVAX to ensure rapid access to the vaccine at a unified flat price,\u201d she said, noting that 40 countries and territories have already formally expressed interest in gaining access to COVID-19 vaccines from COVAX through PAHO\u2019s Revolving Fund.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy using the Revolving Fund, we will build on well-established processes and mechanisms that have been successfully utilized in the Region for more than 40 years. Thus, we can accelerate access to effective COVID vaccines and ensure effective coordination with you, WHO and COVAX to respond to your national needs,\u201d Etienne told the assembled leaders. <\/p>\n

\u201cSadly, as of August 26, more than 450,000 deaths in the Americas have been attributed to COVID-19, and more deaths will occur due to the indirect health, social and economic impact of the pandemic,\u201d Etienne said.<\/p>\n

The pandemic \u201chas ushered in a triple crisis throughout our Region, as it challenges our health systems, fractures our social protection and destabilizes our economies,\u201d she said. \u201cToday, we are in danger of losing years of health gains, in a matter of months. Your Excellencies, sustained interventions across sectors are – and will be required – to suppress COVID-19, to protect health gains, to tackle mounting poverty and inequalities and to build stronger more resilient economies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCOVID-19 has shown us clearly that health outcomes in the region are intrinsically linked to our economies, the social determinants of health, and the safety nets that have been established to protect health and wellbeing. Without integrated health and social protection policies, we cannot mitigate against the terrible impact of COVID-19 on our economic livelihoods,\u201d PAHO\u2019s Director told the presidents.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will support your endeavors to retake the health and development agenda in the future, and reshape them in the wake of this pandemic, to make sure we are better prepared than ever for any future disease outbreak,\u201d Etienne said.<\/p>\n

Contact:<\/h3>\n

Leticia Linn
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\nSebastian Oliel
<\/br>mediateam@paho.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Washington, D.C., August 28, 2020 (PAHO)\u2014 The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Carissa F. Etienne, yesterday invited the PROSUR block of South American presidents to work together on access to vaccines for COVID-19. \u201cWe believe that your support and participation in the COVAX Initiative will provide the best opportunity to fast track…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medicalnewstoday_com"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahvmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahvmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahvmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahvmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahvmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ahvmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahvmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahvmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahvmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahvmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}