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UK accelerating access to Covid-19 vaccines in the Caribbean

This story was posted 2 years ago
10 August 2020
in Health, PRESS RELEASE
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Ensuring equitable access to vaccines, treatments and tests to all in the Caribbean and Latin America through international and regional collaboration, is the only solution to ending the Covid-19 pandemic.

UK and Mexico Foreign Secretaries, Dominic Raab and Marcelo Ebrard, expressed this view during a joint virtual seminar under the theme “Accelerating access to Covid-19 vaccines in Latin America and the Caribbean.” They were joined by senior policymakers and scientists from across the region.

The event was co-hosted by the UK and Mexico on 5 August and highlighted the importance of the Access to Covid-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator to ensure global access to vaccines, treatments and tests to face Covid-19.

Caribbean and Latin American countries were represented by government officials from a variety of ministries and departments as well as representatives of development banks and health alliances, who highlighted the need for collaboration between governments, international institutions and businesses.

UK Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, said, “In order to end this terrible pandemic and kick-start our global recovery, we must make vaccines, treatments and tests accessible for all, from Britain to Brazil, Ethiopia to Ecuador, Turkey to Trinidad and Tobago, and everywhere in-between. This crisis has challenged us like never before. But it has also shown the profound importance of international collaboration. Only by working together can we defeat this virus and build back stronger and better than ever.”

British High Commissioner to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, Janet Douglas, said, “The wide interest in this seminar at a senior level across the countries of the Eastern Caribbean, is proof of the urgent need for all countries across the hemisphere and across the globe to have equitable access to vaccines.”

The coronavirus outbreak is the biggest public health emergency in a generation.

Finding a coronavirus vaccine and supporting equitable access to it, including for Latin America and the Caribbean countries, is a priority for the UK Government. The UK is collaborating with the international community to support the rapid development and manufacturing of safe, effective vaccines as well as treatments and tests to ensure widespread global access.

The UK has already committed up to £313 million of UKAID to support research and development for vaccines, treatments and tests to ensure new tools are available to all, including the world’s poorest countries. The UK also co-hosted June’s Global Vaccine Summit, which mobilised US$8.8 billion to replenish Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Gavi’s work in the poorest countries is critical to sustaining immunisation coverage and bolstering the resilience of primary health care systems needed to tackle Covid-19. In recent days, a study revealed the promising results of the Oxford University vaccine Phase I/II trials, one of a number of projects supported by the UK Government.

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  1. D Hart says:
    2 years ago

    Well why this big push? Seems to me you shouldn’t be accelerating anything that hasn’t been tested for safety unless what you are really saying is that you want to to test vaccines in other countries before the UK sonic they are crap your own people don’t suffer. The Caribbean would become your guinea pigs.

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    • joe says:
      2 years ago

      10000volunteers have been recruited to test vaccines in the uk and of course if it is tested and found to be safe and effective no one will be forced to take it

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