UN needs $35bn more for WHO Covid-19 ACT programme
$15bn is needed immediately, António Guterres says, to go from ‘start up’ to ‘scale up and impact’ in terms of vaccines and treatments
10 September 2020 - 18:14
Zürich — UN secretary-general António Guterres has called for $35bn more, including $15bn in the next three months, for the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Access to Covid-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator programme to back vaccines, treatments and diagnostics against Covid-19.
Some $3bn has been contributed so far, Guterres told an online event on Thursday, calling it “seed funding” that is less than 10% of what the WHO wants for the programme...
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