COVID19 support scheme faces massive funding crisis, calls for USD 10 billion more to prevent collapse of health systems

The WHO-led scheme for ensuring global access to new COVID19 medicines and vaccines will increase its fund-raising target by USD 10 billion to strengthen health systems in poor countries, Development Today has learned. Pledges have so far been skewed toward vaccines. Experts fear that without this added support, weak health systems in developing countries will be crushed under the weight of the pandemic.