World leaders and representatives from over 50 countries virtually joined the Global Vaccine Summit hosted by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday to raise funds for GAVI (The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations), a public-private global health partnership.
The Global Vaccine Summit was able to raise 8.8 billion dollars for routine vaccinations in some of the world’s poorest countries.
Boris Johnson called for donations of at least $7.4 billion for GAVI to immunize further 300 million children in the world’s poorest countries by 2025 against diseases such as polio, diphtheria and measles.
Boris Johnson virtually attends an international conference pledging conference for COVID-19 vaccine.
Aiming to raise at least 7.5 billion euros to fund global research in vaccine, treatments and diagnostics to tackle COVID-19.
The Prime Minister is to tell the international conference, which is being held via video link, that it is “humanity against the virus”.
He will describe the hunt for a vaccine as the most urgent shared endeavour of our lifetimes.
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World leaders pledged on Friday to accelerate work on tests, drugs and vaccines against COVID-19 and to share them around the globe, but the United States did not take part in the launch of the World Health Organization (WHO) initiative.
Several European leaders, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa were among those who joined a video conference to launch what the WHO had billed as a “landmark collaboration” to fight the pandemic.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that the objective at a global pledging effort in early May would be to raise 7.5 billion euros ($8.10 billion) to ramp up work on prevention, diagnostics and treatment.
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