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  1. “Mr. Chaiban: In terms of the humanitarian buffer, the issue of liability and indemnity is key. We need now to recognize that there is a different situation than when we started the whole vaccination effort with billions of doses having been administered. We therefore have much more of a track record when it comes to adverse effects. That then requires an evolution in the discussion around indemnity and liability and a look, first, at steps that can be taken for the full approval of vaccines and, secondly, different insurance instruments that can be used to cover any remaining concerns about indemnity and liability. The discussion concerning the buffer is looking into those different options.”

    2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9014 (2022) · source

  2. “Fifthly, we ask that they engage in the important conversations on the global health emergency architecture and advocate for strong governance and investment in the basics of primary health care as a key element of future pandemic preparedness.”

    2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9014 (2022) · source

  3. “Thirdly, we ask that they advocate for and help guarantee full, safe and unhindered access, in line with international humanitarian law, including protecting humanitarian corridors as a means to getting vital supplies of vaccines and other essential equipment for the delivery of COVID-19 vaccination to populations in need, and ensuring the safety of health and humanitarian personnel administering vaccines in humanitarian settings. Fourthly, we ask that they advocate across Government and work with United Nations country teams and partners to ensure strong national vaccination planning that addresses the needs of all populations living within the national territory, regardless of nationality, migration or refugee status.”

    2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9014 (2022) · source

  4. “First, we call for continued strong support and actions to implement resolutions 2532 (2020) and 2565 (2021), with a particular focus on ensuring that countries continue to prioritize COVID-19 vaccinations. Secondly, with appreciation for the $4.8 billion in pledges made at the COVAX Advance Market Commitment Summit, co-hosted with Germany, we must turn these commitments into tangible support for lower income countries with COVID-19 vaccination needs and a priority on a delivery system. Flexible, agile funding is vital, and these investments can last beyond the pandemic.”

    2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9014 (2022) · source

  5. “The COVID-19 vaccine delivery partnership and partners, suchas UNICEF, the World Health Organization Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, the World Bank and others, provide concerted support to all these countries, mobilizing political engagement, providing flexible funding — $21 million in the past few months — strategic advice and technical assistance and lining up partners behind one country team, one plan and one budget to put countries at the centre and reduce their transaction costs. To address the significant vaccine equity gap that continues to pose a threat to global health security, I ask members to consider the following requests.”

    2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9014 (2022) · source

  6. “As of today, two applicants — the Ministries of Health of Iran and Uganda — have successfully received vaccine doses via the humanitarian buffer, but the partners are committed to making sure it is a more user-friendly, easily accessible mechanism and that populations that are affected by humanitarian settings not included in national vaccination plans, microplanning or the implementation process can equally benefit from vaccination.”

    2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9014 (2022) · source

  7. “In humanitarian settings, from Afghanistan to Yemen, addressing low vaccination coverage rates requires integrating campaigns with humanitarian priorities, working with humanitarian partners and a sustained country-by-country effort to identify and overcome the primary obstacles to increasing vaccination rates among the populations affected by natural disasters, conflict and socioeconomic instability. We recognize the significance of the humanitarian buffer, a mechanism established within the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access (COVAX) Facility to ensure access to COVID-19 vaccines for high-risk and vulnerable populations living in humanitarian settings.”

    2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9014 (2022) · source

  8. “I am speaking to the Council now from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where this week we will be meeting with the Government and key partners to better address the urgent needs regarding and bottlenecks to expanding vaccination coverage across this country of nearly 100 million people. We know that risk communications and community engagement are key components to success. We will therefore be working with in-country partners to support clear communications to increase demand and work to improve convenient access to vaccinations.”

    2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9014 (2022) · source

  9. “Since January, the number of countries with a full population vaccination coverage rate at or below 10 per cent has dropped from 34 to 18. We have just wrapped up a mission in Ethiopia where the campaign rounds have increased vaccination coverage from 4 per cent in January to slightly more than 20 per cent now, including in some of the conflict-affected areas. We have agreed to bundle COVID-19 vaccination efforts with an upcoming measles campaign and to focus on the vaccination of internally displaced persons using the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine. In the Central African Republic, strong community engagement through focus-group discussions, television and radio spots with leaders and influencers, and young people being mobilized has led to almost 19 per cent of the population being vaccinated.”

    2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9014 (2022) · source

  10. “We must therefore use every opportunity to bundle or integrate COVID-19 vaccination with other health and humanitarian interventions and leverage those investments for the longer-term strengthening of health-care systems. In many countries, COVID-19 vaccination is being integrated with measles campaigns and, in complement, with maternal health and routine immunization. COVID-19 vaccination is being used to strengthen the cold chain and health-management information systems and to train and provide incentives to health workers, including the surge required. With strong political leadership, country coordination and planning, and the implementation of mass vaccination campaigns, countries can quickly pick up their vaccination rates and coverage.”

    2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9014 (2022) · source

  11. “The COVID-19 vaccine delivery partnership is focused, among other things, on 34 countries that were at 10 per cent or less of full vaccine coverage and face the biggest challenges to increasing such coverage. The goal is to vaccinate all adults and adolescents, starting with the elderly, health-care and other front-line workers, and those with underlying health conditions, who are at the highest risk from COVID-19. Nineteen of the 34 countries identified for concerted support by the delivery partnership are included in the global humanitarian overview for 2022. We know that there are many competing health, humanitarian and economic priorities in those countries.”

    2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9014 (2022) · source

  12. “The next six months are critical. More than 11.1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered globally, and 124 of the 194 WHO member States have vaccinated more than 40 per cent of their population; 51 countries have reached more than 70 per cent of their population. However, that figure is only 11 per cent in low- income countries. A total of 83 per cent of the population in WHO’s Africa region and 51 per cent in its eastern Mediterranean region, which includes Afghanistan, remain unvaccinated. In 2022 we must take the rapid action needed to accelerate vaccination. The window of opportunity is gradually closing. We risk losing the momentum and failing on vaccine equity.”

    2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9014 (2022) · source

  13. “Mr. Chaiban: I wish to thank you, Mr. President, for the opportunity to address the Council today. We congratulate the United Kingdom on its presidency and appreciate convening with the United Arab Emirates and other Council members to recognize the importance of accelerating progress in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination as a key milestone towards ending the pandemic. Slightly more than 1 million cases of COVID-19 were reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) in the past 24 hours. The pandemic is still far from over. We have safe and available vaccines that can protect against death and severe illness caused by COVID-19 and help avoid the next variant. There is an urgency, with more than 6 million lives having been lost to date, to raise COVID-19 vaccination rates in countries that did not have that opportunity in 2021.”

    2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9014 (2022) · source