On April 24, 2020 the WHO launched the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A), which is a coalition initiated by CEPI and is structured to accelerate development, production and equitable access to COVID-19 diagnostics, treatments and vaccines. [6]

ACT-Accelerator has four pillars of action, COVAX is the vaccines pillar of the ACT Accelerator, the other three are diagnostics, therapeutics and health systems. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

On September 10, 2020, the ACT-Accelerator Facilitation Council was formally launched. [6, 7]