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Rethinking Financial Estimates for Pandemic Preparedness and Response

Rethinking Financial Estimates for Pandemic Preparedness and Response

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Current estimates do not share a standardized methodology for predicting the costs or scope of PPR

Back From the Brink

Back From the Brink

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A plan of action for the pandemic preparedness and response Financial Intermediary Fund

Fix It or Forget It

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It's not too late to reduce the threat of failure of the World Bank's new pandemic preparedness fund 

Fix It or Forget It

Unnoticed, Misunderstood, and Unaddressed

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Why gender equity in global mental health matters

Unnoticed, Misunderstood, and Unaddressed

Wanted: One Billion Booster Shots

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What the COVID-19 booster shot debate means for global vaccine access

Wanted: One Billion Booster Shots

A New Way to Drive COVID-19 Vaccine Development

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How a "benefit-based advance market commitment" could build on existing Gavi COVAX and EU Joint Procurement initiatives

A woman holds a small bottle labeled with a "Vaccine COVID-19" sticker and a medical syringe in this illustration taken on April 10, 2020, in Bosnia. The photo shows a woman holding a small vial to her face. She is wearing a mask and gloves and the vial reads, COVID-19. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

Poverty's Albatross—Nigeria in Mid-Century

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Solving Nigeria's poverty problem will be complex—there are no silver bullets—but it's key to reducing poverty in Africa

A combination picture shows Adetona Omokanye, a 29 year-old documentary photographer, taking pictures from the window of his home in Lagos, Nigeria, on May 24, 2020—along with a shot from inside. Photo is a split screen showing the photographer leaning out the window taking a picture and also a shot from inside looking out at what he was seeing. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja

A Call for Global Solidarity

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If COVID-19 has taught anything, it's that we are one world—and a world where many places need money and technical help

Cooking jackets are laid down and displayed as part of a COVID-19 protest by workers of the cafe and restaurant business demanding more help from the government in Brussels, Belgium, on May 7, 2020. The photo shows an array of shirts, mostly white but a few black ones, laid out over thousands of square feet of a lawn. It's a striking photo. REUTERS/Yves Herman