Initiative for Global Vaccine Access (Global VAX) launched

USAID Administrator Samantha Power announced the foundation of a new whole-of-government effort, the Initiative for Global Vaccine Access (Global VAX), to accelerate global efforts to get COVID-19 shots into arms and enhance international coordination to identify and rapidly overcome access barriers to save lives now.

“The emergence of COVID-19 hotspots and variants including Delta and Omicron underscores the importance of this global fight. Vaccinating the world is the best way to prevent future variants” according to this Global VAX initiative. [1]

Further to this Samantha Power met in a senior leadership meeting with Dr Fauci and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and discussed “a range of topics such as COVID-19 drug discovery, pan-coronavirus vaccines, and global variant tracking”