MEDIA RELEASE Australian Government commits $500m for COVID19 immunisation across the region Global Health Alliance Australia and Pacific Friends of Global Health welcome the announcement from the Australian Government of a $500 million pledge to support the Pacific and South East Asia to safely and effectively roll out COVID19 immunisation programs over the next three […]
UnitaidExplore launches new paediatric formulations call Unitaid is delighted to announce the next call for its agile funding mechanism UnitaidExplore. Following the success of the last round of applications to expand access to oxygen, the next call focuses on one of the most challenging issues in global health – paediatric medicine formulations. There is currently a huge deficit […]
Press Release on the appointment of Dr Philippe Duneton as Unitaid’s new Executive Director Geneva – The Unitaid Executive Board is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Philippe Duneton as Executive Director. Dr Duneton played an essential role in the founding of Unitaid as well as in the numerous successes achieved by the organization since […]
Geneva – Unitaid calls on countries to take the necessary measures to facilitate and promote access to vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics that will help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. This should include ensuring that they have the legal and health systems in place that enable fast production, importation, registration and deployment of effective products, once these become available. […]
Geneva – Unitaid is pleased to announce that France has contributed €10 million (US$11 million) to Unitaid’s work in the Therapeutics Partnership of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A). This is in addition to the core funding that France provides to Unitaid. The Therapeutics Partnership is co-convened by Unitaid alongside Wellcome. The two organisations are charged with leading […]
Budget 2020-21 Analysis 7th October 2020 With $4bn allocated to Official Development Assistance (ODA), plus an additional $304.7m COVID19 response package for the Pacific and Timor-Leste, we are pleased to see an effective increase in the aid budget for the first time since 2013-14. This additional funding is a welcome, and important one-off investment to […]
