世界卫生组织下属的ACT-Accelerator组织发布新战略计划，呼吁国际社会投入234亿美元，用于解决全球COVID-19疫苗、检测工具和治疗药物在国家间获取不均等的问题1。这笔资金将用于诊断工具70亿美元、疫苗70亿美元、治疗药物35亿美元以及卫生系统响应能力建设59亿美元，计划实施至2022年9月1。该战略由Gavi、CEPI、世卫组织等多家全球卫生机构联合推动1。
低收入国家在防疫工具获取中处于严重劣势。目前仅0.4%的检测工具和0.5%的疫苗在低收入国家使用，尽管这些国家占全球人口的9%1。南非总统拉马福萨指出非洲大陆仅8%的人口接种了单剂COVID-19疫苗1。ACT-Accelerator已向144个国家和地区提供超过4.25亿剂疫苗，交付超过1.28亿份检测工具1。新战略计划提出支持91个低收入国家实现疫苗覆盖率目标，并将全球目标定为2022年中期达到70%1。
充足的国际投资具有深远意义。该计划预计可防止至少500万例额外死亡1。国际货币基金组织估计，如果全球大部分地区仍未获得保护，到2026年全球收入损失将达5.3万亿美元1。世卫组织总干事谭德塞表示"充分资助ACT-Accelerator是全球卫生安全的当务之急"1。
The ACT-Accelerator, a global health initiative coordinated by organizations including Gavi, CEPI, and the World Health Organization, has unveiled a new strategic plan requesting $23.4 billion in international investment to tackle disparities in access to COVID-19 vaccines, diagnostic tests, and treatments across the globe 1. The funding, to be deployed through September 2022, would be allocated as follows: $7 billion for diagnostic tools, $7 billion for vaccines, $3.5 billion for treatments, and $5.9 billion for health system response connectors 1. The initiative aims to prevent at least 5 million additional deaths and save the global economy more than $5.3 trillion, according to estimates from the International Monetary Fund 1.
Currently, a stark disparity exists in the distribution of COVID-19 tools: only 0.4 percent of diagnostic tests and 0.5 percent of vaccines are being used in low-income countries, despite these nations representing 9 percent of the global population 1. The plan targets vaccination coverage of 43 percent in COVAX AMC countries, with a global goal of 70 percent coverage by mid-2022 1. To date, the ACT-Accelerator has delivered over 425 million vaccine doses to 144 countries and territories and distributed more than 128 million diagnostic tests 1. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stressed that "adequately funding ACT-Accelerator is an urgent priority for global health security," while South African President Cyril Ramaphosa highlighted that only 8 percent of Africa's population has received a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine 1.
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