Global solidarity & collaboration are essential to overcoming the current pandemic. We are proud to launch the #COVID19 Technology Access Pool, or C-TAP, together with over 30 countries & many partners to help provide equitable access to life-saving technologies around the world. https://twitter.com/who/status/1266394310582439936
C-TAP was first proposed by @CarlosAlvQ, 🇨🇷President. Muchas gracias por su liderazgo, mi hermano.

We stand strong together in commitment to ensuring tools to prevent, detect and treat #COVID19 are global public goods that are accessible by all people. https://twitter.com/CarlosAlvQ/status/1266389836623237122?s=20
We invite companies or gov'ts that develop an effective #COVID19 therapeutic to contribute the patent to the Medicines Patent Pool, which would sub-license the patent to generic manufacturers. Science is giving us solutions but we need solidarity to make them work for everyone.
Huge thanks to:
🇪🇨 President @Lenin
🇵🇼President @LuisLacallePou
🇧🇧 Prime Minister @miaamormottley
🇳🇴Intl. Development State Secretary @AkselJakobsen3
🇮🇩 Foreign Minister @Menlu_RI
🇲🇻Health Minister @ameenex
for joining the #COVID19 Technology Access Pool & its launch. Together!
I am very grateful to 🇳🇱 Ambassador Monica van Daalen, 🇧🇷 Ambassador Maria Nazareth Farani Azevedo and 🇵🇹 President of the National Medicines Authority Rui Ivo, for joining the launch of the #COVID19 Technology Access Pool. Solidarity is key to ending this pandemic.
. @WHO is glad to have support from:
@mbachelet, Higher Commissioner @UNHumanRights
@jagan_chapagain, Secretary General @ifrc
@ShannonHader, Deputy Executive Director @UNAIDS
Paul Fehlner
Richard Wilder, @CEPIvaccines
Hanan Sboul, IGBA
for the #COVID19 Technology Access Pool.
Many thanks to the panelists of the #COVID19 Technology Access Pool launch: @MazzucatoM, Carlos Correa, Jacques Dubochet, @JosephEStiglitz, @DrDuneton, Gregg Alton, @CharlieGore, Achal Prabhala, @Joshuasetipa, @Anna_Marriott for a very fruitful discussion & suggestions! Together!
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