Final report of the CEWG now available
The Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development: Financing and Coordination (CEWG) was established by the World Health Assembly (WHA) in 2010. The CEWG was asked to submit its final report to the 65th WHA. The report is now available in English and French to be shortly followed Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish. The report will also be posted as a WHA document on the WHA website once it is available in all six official languages. It is being made available early for Member States to have more time before the WHA to consider the contents of the report.
New publications on local production for access to medical products
The outputs of phase 1 of this project were published at a seminar in the European Parliament on 7 December 2011. The aim of this work was to develop a framework that could bring together and guide policymakers and others from all relevant fields to support the local production of medicines, vaccines and diagnostics in a manner that should improve access maximizing the potential to improve public health.
Workshop on Enhancing the Global Workforce for Vaccine Manufacturing
The workshop was held in Cape Town, South Africa from 30 November-2 December 2011. It brought together key stakeholders to identify essential needs and current gaps in the vaccine manufacturing workforce in developing countries; discuss the development of a coordinated and sustainable approach to address these needs and gaps; generate ideas for leveraging existing resources; and delineate potential policy issues and options for the short, medium, and long-term.
