The @ACTAccelerator, an unprecedented global alliance to develop & deliver the tests, treatments & vaccines the 🌐 needs to fight #COVID19, marks its first anniversary today with a special report on its progress & aims for 2021:
👉bit.ly/3sFJjLL

The @ACTAccelerator's vaccines pillar, #COVAX has successfully:
✅ Secured access to over 2 billion #COVID19 vaccine doses
✅ Shipped more than 40 million doses to 119 economies

👉 bit.ly/3sFJjLL
To help all countries detect #COVID19, the @ACTAccelerator's diagnostics pillar has: 
✅ Supported the development & use of antigen rapid diagnostic tests
✅ Procured 65+ million tests for lower income countries

👉 bit.ly/3sFJjLL
The @ACTAccelerator's therapeutics pillar has:
✅ Tracked over 300 actionable trials
✅ Supported the identification of dexamethasone as the first life-saving #COVID19 treatment, working to rapidly make 2.9m doses available to lower income countries
 
👉 bit.ly/3sFJjLL
The @ACTAccelerator's Health Systems Connector has:
✅ Procured over US$ 500 million of personal protective equipment
✅ Assessed country readiness for the deployment of vaccines in more than 140 countries
 
👉 bit.ly/3sFJjLL
The pandemic has entrenched, exposed and created inequalities, such as in the number of #COVID19 tests countries can conduct weekly. The @ACTAccelerator needs urgent support to equitably distribute #COVID19 tools. Let’s #ACTogether!

👉 bit.ly/3sFJjLL
Public, private, & multilateral funders have committed US$ 14.1 billion to the @ACTAccelerator so far, but the partnership needs another US$ 19 billion in 2021 to develop & deliver the tests, treatments, & vaccines needed to bring #COVID19 under control.
 
bit.ly/3sFJjLL

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