Bruce Aylward, head of the WHO’s ACT Accelerator program (Photo: WHO/Christopher Black)
Bruce Aylward, head of the WHO’s ACT Accelerator program (Photo: WHO/Christopher Black)
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- Bruce Aylward, head of the WHO’s ACT Accelerator program (Photo: WHO/Christopher Black)
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- Bruce Aylward (centre), visits Sierra Leone when he was assistant director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) in charge of the operational response on Ebola. He’s shown with Ismail Ould Cheikh, special representative to the UN secretary general. (Photo: UN photo)
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- The Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator is a partnership of governments, health organizations, scientists, businesses, civil society and philanthropists, established in April 2020 to speed up an end to the COVID-19 pandemic by accelerating the development, equitable allocation and scaled-up delivery of vaccines, tests and treatments to reduce mortality and severe disease. (Photo: UNICEF Ethiopia)
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- To date, the ACT-Accelerator has received commitments of US $18.1 billion. Of that figure, US $12.5 billion has flowed to the COVAX pillar. Canada has committed US $552 million to COVAX and also pledged to share 40,700,000 vaccine doses with COVAX. (Photo: UNICEF Ethiopia)
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- COVAX is one of the ACT Accelerator’s four pillars. The other three are tests, treatments and health systems. (Photo: UNICEF Ethiopia)
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- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau earned some criticism early on when he announced Canada would be taking vaccines from the COVAX program to vaccinate its own people. But Canada has since made up for that transgression and is now among the top donors to COVAX. (Photo: PMO)
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- Tedros Adhanom, director-general of the World Health Organization, always has vaccine equity at the top of his agenda, says his colleague, Bruce Aylward. (Photo: UN PHOTO)