Financing Vaccine Equity : Funding for Day-Zero of the Next Pandemic

A lack of timely financing for purchases of vaccines and other health products impeded the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on analysis of contract signature and delivery dates in COVID-19 vaccine advance purchase agreements, this pa...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Agarwal, Ruchir, Reed, Tristan
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2022
Subjects:
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099500105262228687/IDU0cdc5294e039a8045fb0aa670908d56a28371
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37488
id okr-10986-37488
recordtype oai_dc
spelling okr-10986-374882022-06-01T05:10:38Z Financing Vaccine Equity : Funding for Day-Zero of the Next Pandemic Agarwal, Ruchir Reed, Tristan VACCINE FINANCING COVID-19 VACCINE VACCINE EQUITY NEXT PANDEMIC PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS CORONAVIRUS VACCINE FUND HEALTH EQUITY VACCINE ACCESSIBILITY UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO VACCINE GLOBAL HEALTH ACCESS A lack of timely financing for purchases of vaccines and other health products impeded the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on analysis of contract signature and delivery dates in COVID-19 vaccine advance purchase agreements, this paper finds that 60–75 percent of the delay in vaccine deliveries to low- and middle-income countries is attributable to their signing purchase agreements later than high-income countries, which placed them further behind in the delivery line. A pandemic Advance Commitment Facility with access to a credit line on day-zero of the next pandemic could allow low- and middle-income countries to secure orders earlier, ensuring a much faster and equitable global response than during COVD-19. The paper outlines four options for a financier to absorb some or all of the risk associated with the credit line and discusses how the credit would complement other proposals to strengthen the financing architecture for pandemic preparedness, prevention, and response. 2022-05-31T18:01:09Z 2022-05-31T18:01:09Z 2022-05 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099500105262228687/IDU0cdc5294e039a8045fb0aa670908d56a28371 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37488 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research
repository_type Digital Repository
institution_category Foreign Institution
institution Digital Repositories
building World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
collection World Bank
language English
topic VACCINE FINANCING
COVID-19 VACCINE
VACCINE EQUITY
NEXT PANDEMIC
PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS
CORONAVIRUS VACCINE FUND
HEALTH EQUITY
VACCINE ACCESSIBILITY
UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO VACCINE
GLOBAL HEALTH ACCESS
spellingShingle VACCINE FINANCING
COVID-19 VACCINE
VACCINE EQUITY
NEXT PANDEMIC
PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS
CORONAVIRUS VACCINE FUND
HEALTH EQUITY
VACCINE ACCESSIBILITY
UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO VACCINE
GLOBAL HEALTH ACCESS
Agarwal, Ruchir
Reed, Tristan
Financing Vaccine Equity : Funding for Day-Zero of the Next Pandemic
description A lack of timely financing for purchases of vaccines and other health products impeded the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on analysis of contract signature and delivery dates in COVID-19 vaccine advance purchase agreements, this paper finds that 60–75 percent of the delay in vaccine deliveries to low- and middle-income countries is attributable to their signing purchase agreements later than high-income countries, which placed them further behind in the delivery line. A pandemic Advance Commitment Facility with access to a credit line on day-zero of the next pandemic could allow low- and middle-income countries to secure orders earlier, ensuring a much faster and equitable global response than during COVD-19. The paper outlines four options for a financier to absorb some or all of the risk associated with the credit line and discusses how the credit would complement other proposals to strengthen the financing architecture for pandemic preparedness, prevention, and response.
format Working Paper
author Agarwal, Ruchir
Reed, Tristan
author_facet Agarwal, Ruchir
Reed, Tristan
author_sort Agarwal, Ruchir
title Financing Vaccine Equity : Funding for Day-Zero of the Next Pandemic
title_short Financing Vaccine Equity : Funding for Day-Zero of the Next Pandemic
title_full Financing Vaccine Equity : Funding for Day-Zero of the Next Pandemic
title_fullStr Financing Vaccine Equity : Funding for Day-Zero of the Next Pandemic
title_full_unstemmed Financing Vaccine Equity : Funding for Day-Zero of the Next Pandemic
title_sort financing vaccine equity : funding for day-zero of the next pandemic
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2022
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099500105262228687/IDU0cdc5294e039a8045fb0aa670908d56a28371
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37488
_version_ 1764487305053077504