Internal documents showed that the global program that aims to provide vaccines for Covid-19 to the poorest countries faces the risk of failure to a “very large” degree, which may lead to countries with an estimated population of billions not obtaining vaccines until 2024.
The WHO Kovacs Program is the main global program to vaccinate people in poor and middle-income countries around the world to prevent Coronavirus. It seeks to deliver at least two billion vaccine doses by the end of 2021, covering 20 percent of the population most at risk of contracting the virus in 91 poor and middle-income countries, most of them in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
But program organizers say in internal documents reviewed by Reuters that the program is facing difficulties due to lack of funding, supply risks and complications in contracting arrangements, which may make it impossible to achieve its goals.
“The risk of failing to establish a successful Kovacs mechanism is very great,” an internal report by the Board of Directors of Jaffe, an alliance of governments, pharmaceutical companies, charities and international organizations that arranges global vaccination campaigns, said. The Jaffe Alliance manages the Kovacs program jointly with the World Health Organization.
And discuss the meetings of the Board of Directors of Jaffe, which began yesterday and continue to tomorrow, this report and other documents prepared by the coalition.
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