As CEPI passes the hat for its upcoming CEPI 3.0 strategy, this piece (⬇️) is a reminder that public donors should use their leverage to ensure that public investment prioritizes public health over private wealth via equitable and transparent access conditions. 💰💉⚖️
Vax investment should be transparent, especially access terms. CEPI committed $50m to Moderna for Ebola, but has not published the terms. CEPI “should be judged above all by its access mission, because that is what distinguishes it from a conventional innovation fund.” Our comment in The Lancet:
Applications still very welcome.
Read our statement sharing principles to follow for equitable access to medical tools for Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus: msfaccess.org/principles-e...
British Columbia health officials say the Canadian who fell ill with hantavirus on a cruise ship stricken with an outbreak earlier this spring has recovered.
https://cheknews.ca/b-c-health-officials-say-canadian-who-tested-positive-for-hantavirus-has-recovered-1329525/
👀"Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), the GARDP Foundation, and Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) join forces to accelerate drug development for patients in greatest need"
🔬🧪💊💉🤝
dndi.org/press-releas...
Canada has never been very good at even striving to hit the 0.7% aid target, but until recently the government was at least pointed in the right direction.
(... and had a Minister of International Development).
The Canadian Government had the technology & expertise to develop a pan-filovirus vaccine (incl. #Bundibugyo) years ago but lacked the resources & political will to do so, per analysis of its own successful #Ebola💉.
(h/t @mattherder.bsky.social for receipts via pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...)
"Raccoon #Rabies: The epidemic is approaching Greater Montreal" 🦝
("Quebec is extending the ban on transporting raccoons this Sunday" is perhaps not where I anticipated this article was going...🤔)
