Questionnaire on national, regional or global incentives to facilitate scale up and access to COVID-19 health technologies, including vaccines, diagnostics, and therapeutics

Overview

On Tuesday, 13 July 2021 WHO invited its Member States to nominate a focal point to coordinate the collection and reporting of their Government’s response to an online questionnaire on national, regional or global incentives to facilitate scale up and access to COVID-19 health technologies, including vaccines, diagnostics, and therapeutics. National or regional incentives may help motivate technology holders to voluntarily share through the WHO COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) initiative, which works through its implementing partners, the Medicines Patent Pool, Open COVID Pledge, UN Technology Bank and Unitaid, to facilitate timely, equitable and affordable access to COVID-19 health technologies by garnering commitments from technology holders to share related knowledge, intellectual property and/or data. The questionnaire is intended to guide Member States in identifying relevant laws, regulations, guidelines and procedures that could be modified or introduced to facilitate the sharing of technologies through WHO C-TAP for rapid scale up in such an unprecedented pandemic. The responses to the questionnaire will be compiled in an aggregated form and analyzed by the WHO C-TAP Secretariat to be presented to the C-TAP Steering Committee and Member States to support the engagement with COVID-19 technology holders in voluntary pooling of knowledge, intellectual property and data.