{"id":153559,"date":"2021-03-26T08:45:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T12:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/?post_type=one_press&amp;p=153559"},"modified":"2021-03-26T08:45:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T12:45:11","slug":"ngo-vaccine-letter","status":"publish","type":"one_press","link":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/press\/ngo-vaccine-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Global health organizations push Biden to share excess COVID-19 vaccine doses with world\u2019s poorest, issue warning on global vaccine access crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Over 30 leading development and global health organizations have sent a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/us\/2021\/05\/WH-Letter.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">letter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to President Biden sounding the alarm about the global vaccine access crisis and the need for the United States to share its excess COVID-19 vaccine doses with those countries in greatest need.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To date, the United States has secured over <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.one.org\/pdfs\/ONE_Analysis_on_excess_doses.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">550 million excess<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> COVID-19 vaccine doses which the groups believe should be shared low-income countries through COVAX. The groups also outlined a series of recommendations the administration can take to expand vaccine manufacturing capacity and supply.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe, the undersigned organizations, are writing to sound the alarm,\u201d the letter reads. \u201cThe US has secured enough doses to vaccinate 100 percent of the population, including children, and still have around 554 million doses left over. With one-third of the world&#8217;s countries still not having access to vaccines and new variants forming, it\u2019s in our domestic and global interest to extinguish this pandemic everywhere to shorten the virus\u2019 lifespan and prevent further mutations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The letter is signed by the following organizations: Asylum Access, Better World Campaign, The Borgen Project, CARE USA, Catholic Relief Services, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Equal Access International, Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, GOAL USA Fund, Global Citizen, Helen Keller International, Helping Hand for Relief and Development, IMA World Health, InterAction, International Medical Corps, International Rescue Committee, Last Mile Health, Management Sciences for Health, Mercy Corps, Pandemic Action Network, Plan International USA, PATH, Physicians for Peace, RESULTS, Save the Children, Shot@Life, The ONE Campaign, The Task Force for Global Health, UNICEF USA,\u00a0United Nations Association of the USA, WaterAid America and Wellcome Trust.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The full letter is available <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/us\/2021\/05\/WH-Letter.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">President Biden himself has stated that America will not be safe until the world is safe, and has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-biden-surplus\/biden-says-americans-will-be-first-to-get-vaccines-any-surplus-to-be-shared-idUSKBN2B22OY\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cIf we have a surplus, we\u2019re going to share it with the rest of the world.\u201d However, the administration still has not released a plan or framework for sharing its excess doses. Meanwhile, countries like China are sharing nearly <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/us-coronavirus-vaccine-diplomacy-china-exports-4a5c7bbd-32fb-468a-add5-9b1689bf5ce3.html?utm_campaign=organic&amp;utm_medium=socialshare&amp;utm_source=twitter\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">two-thirds<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of their domestically produced vaccines with other countries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At a minimum, the groups argue the Biden administration should follow through on its <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/01\/21\/national-security-directive-united-states-global-leadership-to-strengthen-the-international-covid-19-response-and-to-advance-global-health-security-and-biological-preparedness\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">National Security Memorandum<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and release \u201ca framework for donating surplus vaccines, once there is sufficient supply in the United States, to countries in need, including through the COVAX Facility.\u201d The groups are also urging the Administration to take steps to expand manufacturing capacity for COVID-19 vaccines and hope to see progress from the administration in the lead up to the G20 Global Health Summit in May and the G7 in early June. <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"buffer\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Over 30 leading development and global health organizations have sent a letter to President Biden sounding the alarm about the global vaccine access crisis and the need for the United States to share its excess COVID-19 vaccine doses with those countries in greatest need. 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