Vaccines for the Many or Only the Few? Immunizations and COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted billions of lives and threatens to reserve decades of development gains. The secondary effects of the pandemic could result in more lives lost from vaccine preventable diseases than from COVID-19. The best way to mitigate the primary and secondary impacts of COVID-19 is to safeguard immunization services and strong health systems and ensure equitable access to future COVID-19 vaccines.

The objective of this side event is to galvanize governments and humanitarian actors to safeguard interuppted immunization campaigns, outline key infrastructure that needs to be in place by the time a COVID-19 vaccine is developed, and highlight the need for global coordination to implement equitable access to a COVID-19 vaccine. It also seeks to bring visibility to the COVAX Facility as the only current viable and pragmatic way to plan for equitable access and distribution of the future COVID-19 vaccine for all countries, with a focus on the most vulnerable.

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