January 5, 2023: COVID GAP Accountability Report Issue 17 Key Changes and Insights Since Previous Report: China has rolled back its zero-COVID policies, and there is a lack of accurate data available regarding COVID deaths or circulating variants. Airfinity’s model predicts
The Global Accountability Platform (COVID GAP) blog series. December 12, 2022 By Nellie Bristol The Global Health Security Agenda launched in early 2014 as a bold attempt to jump start health emergency capacity building in low- and middle-income countries. Backed
The Global Accountability Platform (COVID GAP) blog series. November 28, 2022 By Nellie Bristol The West African Ebola outbreak of 2014-2016 brought a surge of national and international attention to epidemic and pandemic preparedness including revamped or new country level
The Global Accountability Platform (COVID GAP) blog series. November 10, 2022 By Stephanie Stan Peru’s weak, fragmented, centralized health system hindered an effective COVID-19 response, especially in remote areas lacking infrastructure and adequate health services. The challenges particularly affected indigenous communities, which
The Launch and Scale Speedometer blog series. October 28, 2022 By Katharine Olson and Wenhui Mao Vaccines have played a large role in the global COVID-19 response and saved numerous lives. However, when highly transmissible variants such as Omicron (BA.1)
The Global Accountability Platform (COVID GAP) blog series. October 27, 2022 By Nellie Bristol While global health experts have long urged heightened attention and funding toward pandemic preparedness, COVID-19 showed the world remained woefully ill equipped. Lacking an established system to
The Global Accountability Platform (COVID GAP) blog series. October 13, 2022 By Nellie Bristol The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention Health Economics Programme (HEP) is fast tracking research on the cost effectiveness of oral therapeutics to ensure data are
The Global Accountability Platform (COVID GAP) blog series. September 30, 2022 By Nellie Bristol Under COVID-19’s current course, yearly vaccination focused on high risk populations is most likely to prevent the most hospitalizations and deaths and prove more cost effective than
The Global Accountability Platform (COVID GAP) blog series. September 15, 2022 By Nellie Bristol Ten countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia will partner with a new public-private collaboration to scale up COVID-19 test and treat operations for high risk populations,
The Global Accountability Platform (COVID GAP) blog series. August 31, 2022 By Nellie Bristol Infectious disease physician and Duke Professor Paul Pronyk remembers watching helplessly in the late 1990s as HIV-exposed patients entered a clinic in South Africa where he could
