Urgent needs of low-income and middle-income countries for COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics
J. Peter Figueroa,Maria Elena Bottazzi,Peter J. Hotez,Carolina Batista,Onder Ergonul,Sarah C. Gilbert,Mayda Gursel,Mazen Hassanain,Jerome H. Kim,Bhavna Lall,Heidi J. Larson,Denise Naniche,Timothy P. Sheahan,Shmuel Shoham,Annelies Wilder-Smith,Natalie Strub-Wourgaft,Prashant Yadav,Gagandeep Kang +17 more
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The COVAX Facility of the ACT Accelerator has agreements to access 2 billion doses of WHO prequalified vaccines during 2021, but this represents only 20% of the vaccine needs of participating countries Most low-income and middle-income countries face difficulties in accessing and delivering vaccines and therapeutics for COVID-19 to their populations.About:
This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2021-02-13 and is currently open access. It has received 98 citations till now.read more
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Supporting Health for the Long Haul: a literature synthesis and proposed occupational therapy self-management virtual group intervention for return-to-work
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Ensuring equitable distribution of vaccines between high-income and low income countries: lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic
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Policy-driven mathematical modeling for COVID-19 pandemic response in the Philippines
Elvira P. De Lara-Tuprio,Carlo Delfin S. Estadilla,Jay Michael R. Macalalag,Timothy Robin Teng,Joshua Uyheng,Kennedy Espina,Christian E. Pulmano,Ma. Regina E. Estuar,Raymond Francis Sarmiento +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors present the mathematical specifications of the FASSSTER COVID-19 compartmental model at the core of the scenario-based disease modeling and analytics toolkit used in the Philippines.
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Narrative Review of the Evolution of COVID-19 Vaccination Recommendations in Countries in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, and Asia
Julia Regazzini Spinardi,Ana Carolina Dantas,Carolina M Carballo,Karan Ramyank Thakkar,Moe H. Kyaw,Amit Kumar Srivastava,Marco Aurélio Palazzi Sáfadi +6 more
TL;DR: The authors in this paper summarized evolving COVID-19 vaccine recommendations in countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa and the Middle East across various vaccine platforms, age groups, and specific subpopulations.
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