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News Articles: COVAX

People line up to receive a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine dose during a mass vaccination campaign in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in August 2021.

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  • Global Health

Why this USAID official is optimistic the U.S. can get the world vaccinated

Jeremy Konyndyk, executive director of USAID's COVID task force, shares his perspective on the U.S.' efforts to donate and distribute vaccines to low-income nations.

February 15, 2022
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By:
  • Mary Louise Kelly and
  • Lauren Hodges
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  • Global Health

The goal: at least 40% vaxxed in all nations by year-end. This map shows how we stand

The program called COVAX was set up to make sure that all countries have access to COVID vaccines. Two key public health figures talk about what went wrong — and how to fix it.

December 30, 2021
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By:
  • Nurith Aizenman
COVID-19 vaccines from COVAX, the international vaccine-sharing program, arrive in Khartoum, Sudan, on Aug. 5. In a letter to President Biden, health experts are asking him to take action to manufacture and distribute vaccines to the entire world.

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  • Global Health

They're Asking Biden To Vaccinate The World. It's Not Fair. But It's Not Impossible

An open letter from 175 experts to President Biden made the ask. "We're not trying to be unreasonable," explains Dr. Paul Farmer, one of the signers. "We're trying to be optimistic and audacious."

August 20, 2021
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By:
  • Joanne Lu
Containers of Moderna vaccines donated by the U.S. arrived in Bogota, Colombia, on July 25.

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  • Global Health

Biden Has Sent Millions Of Vaccines To Nations In Need. Millions More Are Needed

The number of doses delivered so far puts the U.S. ahead of every other country making donations, but global health experts caution that many millions more are needed to vanquish the pandemic.

August 03, 2021
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By:
  • Tamara Keith and
  • Will Stone
Health workers arrive in a tuk-tuk to administer doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to elderly citizens in their homes in Lima, Peru, in April.

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  • Global Health

It's A Tricky Balancing Act For Countries Awaiting Vaccine Doses

They have to figure out how to distribute the vaccines — and keep their citizens interested in getting their jab — without knowing when supplies will arrive.

July 05, 2021
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By:
  • Will Stone
Vaccine doses are in short supply in African countries — and even when they arrive, there may not be a way to get them into people's arms in a timely fashion. Above: People wait to get vaccinated at a hospital in Thika, Kenya, in March.

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  • Global Health

Why Millions Of Doses (From Biden) And A Billion Bucks (From Mastercard) Aren't Enough

The latest news about donated vaccines and cash aid for low-resource countries seems encouraging. But here's what vaccine experts are saying about supply and demand.

June 08, 2021
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By:
  • Will Stone
A man takes a selfie while getting the COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination day in Mexico City.

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  • World

The U.S. Is Sending 1 Million Vaccines To Mexico Border Cities And Resort Spots

Mexico has reported more than 2.4 million confirmed coronavirus cases with more than 228,000 deaths as of Thursday. Targeting the shots toward tourist areas is a bid to boost the country's economy.

June 04, 2021
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
People wait their turn to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Chennai, India, in April. India is among the nations that will receive surplus U.S. vaccine through the international distribution system COVAX, the White House announced.

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  • Health

The White House Says It Has Started Shipping Surplus COVID-19 Vaccines Abroad

The White House laid out a plan for sharing the nation's vaccine surplus with parts of the world struggling to get shots in arms.

June 04, 2021
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By:
  • Tamara Keith and
  • Mark Katkov
From left: A New Delhi woman waits in an observation room after getting the Covishield vaccine (the name used for the AstraZeneca vaccine in India) on May 26. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves a vaccination center after his first AstraZeneca dose on March 19. On March 9, Nairobi, Kenya, began vaccinating groups, including health care workers and older people, with the AstraZeneca vaccine.

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  • Global Health

AstraZeneca's Rocky Rollout: The Woes Of The 'Vaccine For The World'

Oxford-AstraZeneca promised its COVID-19 vaccine would be effective, cheap and available worldwide. Five months after its launch, the path forward has been anything but smooth.

June 01, 2021
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By:
  • Jason Beaubien
An older person receives their first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine in Thika, Kenya. The vaccine's manufacturer, Serum Institute of India, announced this week that it will freeze all exports of the vaccine through the end of this year — leaving 20 million people in Africa without a source for their second dose.

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  • Global Health

20 Million Africans Are Due For Their 2nd COVID Shot. But There's No Supply In Sight

African nations had been counting on Serum Institute of India for nearly all their COVID vaccines. Now the company says it won't be sending any more for months. And African officials are scrambling.

May 22, 2021
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By:
  • Nurith Aizenman
A patient rests at the COVID ward of the regional hospital in Leova, Moldova, on March 23. Moldova remains one of the poorest countries in Europe and has relied on vaccine donations from Romania and COVAX, a program that aims to distribute the world's vaccines more equitably.

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  • Global Health

What Is This COVAX Program That The U.S. Is Pouring Millions Of Vaccines Into?

President Biden said the U.S. is distributing them not to curry favor with allies, but to end the pandemic everywhere. And he's doing it through COVAX.

May 20, 2021
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By:
  • Jason Beaubien
The Kindred Spirits sculpture in Midleton, County Cork, Ireland, pays tribute to a gift from the Choctaw nation to help during the 19th century potato famine. Ireland paid it back with donations to the Navajo and Hopi nations to help them during the pandemic.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: What Native Americans Can Teach Rich Nations About Generosity In A Pandemic

It's inspiring when a spirit of generosity goes global. But to fight this pandemic, well-off nations must do their part. That's why we think Biden's stand on vaccine patents is a vital step.

May 10, 2021
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By:
  • Sriram Shamasunder and
  • Priti Krishtel
A bishop receives a vaccine for COVID-19 at Juba Teaching Hospital on April 7 in Juba, South Sudan. South Sudan received 132,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on March 25 through the World Health Organization's COVAX program to ensure all countries have equal access to vaccines.

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  • Global Health

They Desperately Need COVID Vaccines. So Why Are Some Countries Throwing Out Doses?

How the chaotic system for distributing the world's vaccine supply is wreaking havoc in places that can least afford it.

May 05, 2021
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By:
  • Nurith Aizenman
A woman lines up to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine in Mexico City on Feb. 17.

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  • Politics

Biden Takes First Jab At Vaccine Diplomacy, Sharing Doses With Mexico, Canada

The United States will loan millions of doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine — not yet approved for emergency U.S. use — to its closest neighbors.

March 19, 2021
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By:
  • Tamara Keith
Ghana is the first country to receive a shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from the global COVAX program. Above: The vaccines are unloaded at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra on February 24.

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  • Global Health

Ghana Greets Historic Vaccine Delivery With A Dose Of Skepticism

It's the first country to receive free vaccines from the COVAX program. But that shipment of 600,000 can't protect a nation of 30 million. And conspiracy theories about the vaccine are swirling.

March 04, 2021
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By:
  • Malaka Gharib and
  • Suzette Lohmeyer
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