[UN] Vaccine equity at heart of new $50 billion plan to end pandemic, drive recovery

출처 : United Nations
등록일 : 2021-06-01
조회 : 53

<div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify">UN에서 제공하는 "백신 형평성 500억 달러짜리 계획이 팬데믹을 끝내고 회복을 이끈다."</div><div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify">Governments are being urged to finance a new $50 billion roadmap to end the COVID-19 pandemic and drive a fast recovery, announced on Tuesday by the heads of the world’s predominant global financing, health and trade agencies.</div><div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify"><p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Lato, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" align="justify">The<a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/01-06-2021-new-50-billion-health-trade-and-finance-roadmap-to-end-the-pandemic-and-secure-a-global-recovery" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 174, 239); text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;">&nbsp;plan</a>&nbsp;seeks to scale-up supplies of vaccines, tests and treatments, thus reducing the “equity gap” in developing countries, the leaders of the International Monetary Fund (<a href="http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm" title="International Monetary Fund (IMF)" class="word-link" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: url("/en/sites/all/modules/contrib/word_link/css/external.png") right top no-repeat; color: rgb(0, 174, 239); text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">IMF</a>), the World Bank Group (WBG), the World Health Organization (<a href="http://www.who.int/en/" title="World Health Organization" class="word-link" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: url("/en/sites/all/modules/contrib/word_link/css/external.png") right top no-repeat; color: rgb(0, 174, 239); text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">WHO</a>) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) said in a joint statement.&nbsp;<div class="dnd-widget-wrapper context-un_news_default type-twitter atom-align-right" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right; width: 327.25px; margin-left: 8.4px; max-width: 35%; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" align="justify"><div class="dnd-atom-rendered" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; max-width: 550px; width: 327.25px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> </div></div></div><h3 style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans Condensed", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 114, 187); margin-top: 22px; margin-bottom: 11px; font-size: 1.33333em; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Vaccine access key&nbsp;</h3><p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Lato, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">They warned that unless governments act now, continued waves of infections and outbreaks, as well as more transmissible and deadly virus variants, could threaten recovery.&nbsp;<p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Lato, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“By now it has become abundantly clear there will be no broad-based recovery without an end to the health crisis. Access to vaccination is key to both”, they said, in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/a-new-commitment-for-vaccine-equity-and-defeating-the-pandemic" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 174, 239); text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;">a call to action</a>&nbsp;published in newspapers across the world.&nbsp;<p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Lato, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The $50 billion investment is required for two crucial reasons.&nbsp;<p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Lato, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The funding will increase manufacturing, supply, trade and delivery that would accelerate equitable distribution of the tools to diagnose and treat&nbsp;<a href="https://www.un.org/coronavirus" title="Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)" class="word-link" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: url("/en/sites/all/modules/contrib/word_link/css/external.png") right top no-repeat; color: rgb(0, 174, 239); text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">COVID-19</a>, such as vaccines, oxygen and medical supplies, while also promoting economic growth around the world. &nbsp;&nbsp;<p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Lato, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;“This new roadmap reflects the need to enhance countries’ readiness and capacity systems to utilize these tools rapidly, safely and effectively”, said WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking at media briefing later on Tuesday.<h3 style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans Condensed", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 114, 187); margin-top: 22px; margin-bottom: 11px; font-size: 1.33333em; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Modest investment, big returns&nbsp;</h3><p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Lato, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The funding commitment will bring the pandemic to an end faster in developing countries, the partners said, reducing infections and deaths, while also accelerating economic recovery.<p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Lato, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">At the press briefing, Kristalina Georgieva, IMF Managing Director, explained the link between vaccination and the global economy.<p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Lato, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“We are deeply concerned because an increasingly two-track pandemic is causing a two-track economic recovery with negative consequences for all countries. And our data shows that in the near term, vaccinating the world is the most effective way to boost global output. In other words, vaccine policy is economic policy,” she said.<p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Lato, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The agency chiefs &nbsp;estimated that the investment will generate&nbsp;some $9 trillion in additional economic activity&nbsp;by 2025, in line with recent analysis by the International Chamber of Commerce, the world’s largest business organization, and Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy.&nbsp;<p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Lato, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">These entities have made the case for a relatively modest investment by governments, compared with the trillions spent on stimulus plans, and also lost in foregone economic output. &nbsp;<p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Lato, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Critically, the funding will spur global vaccination and bridge “the equity gap” in accessing doses. &nbsp;UN&nbsp;<a href="https://www.un.org/sg/" title="António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations" class="word-link" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: url("/en/sites/all/modules/contrib/word_link/css/external.png") right top no-repeat; color: rgb(0, 174, 239); text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Secretary-General António Guterres</a>&nbsp;has repeatedly stressed that vaccines must be global public goods available to all people, everywhere.&nbsp;<h3 style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans Condensed", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 114, 187); margin-top: 22px; margin-bottom: 11px; font-size: 1.33333em; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A shot in the arm&nbsp;</h3><p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Lato, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">WHO and its partners in the vaccine equity initiative,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.who.int/initiatives/act-accelerator/covax" title="The vaccines pillar of the ACT-Accelerator" class="word-link" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: url("/en/sites/all/modules/contrib/word_link/css/external.png") right top no-repeat; color: rgb(0, 174, 239); text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">COVAX</a>, recently set the goal of inoculating 30 per cent of the global population by the end this year. &nbsp;This&nbsp;could reach 40 per cent through other agreements and surge investment, and at least 60 per cent by the first half of 2022, according to the joint statement.<p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Lato, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“To urgently get more shots in arms, doses need to be donated immediately to developing countries synchronized with national vaccine deployment plans, including through COVAX”,&nbsp; it said. &nbsp;<p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Lato, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala underlined the need for cooperation on trade, as export restrictions continue and countries wrangle over waiving an agreement on intellectual property rights, known as TRIPS.<p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Lato, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She told journalists that&nbsp;trade policy can help scale-up vaccine production, including by&nbsp;freeing up supply chains, and through working with manufacturers to make the most of existing production facilities and build new ones, particularly in regions where they are lacking.<p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Lato, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“We know that there is the TRIPS waiver debate going on at the WTO”, she added. “While I cannot take sides, we need to get to a conclusion on this debate. We need to promote also the transfer of technology and know-how to get lasting increases in production capacity.”<h3 style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans Condensed", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 114, 187); margin-top: 22px; margin-bottom: 11px; font-size: 1.33333em; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Another vaccine validation&nbsp;</h3><p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Lato, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The joint plan was announced as WHO approved another COVID-19 vaccine for rollout.&nbsp;<p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Lato, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Sinovac-CoronaVac vaccine, made in China, has been validated for emergency use, meaning it meets international standards for safety, efficacy and manufacturing.&nbsp;<p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Lato, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Emergency Use Listing (EUL) process is a prerequisite for inclusion in COVAX and international procurement.&nbsp;<p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Lato, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“The world desperately needs multiple COVID-19 vaccines to address the huge access inequity across the globe,” said Dr Mariângela Simão, WHO Assistant-Director General for Access to Health Products. &nbsp;<p style="text-align: justify; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 11px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Lato, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“We urge manufacturers to participate in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.who.int/initiatives/act-accelerator/covax" title="COVAX facility" class="word-link" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: url("/en/sites/all/modules/contrib/word_link/css/external.png") right top no-repeat; color: rgb(0, 174, 239); text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">COVAX Facility</a>, share their knowhow and data and contribute to bringing the pandemic under control.</div><div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify">※ 자세한 내용은 URL을 확인하시기 바랍니다.</div>

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