In this New York Times commentary on Jan 13, Wafaa El- Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, global director of ICAP, and co-authors – James Krellenstein and Peter Staley, the co-founders of PrEP4All, an activist think tank dedicated to increasing access to H.I.V. and Covid-19 treatments – call for the incoming US administration to create a new entity called the President’s Emergency Plan for Vaccine Access and Relief, or PEPVAR. This new entity – based on the model of PEPFAR, which has been effective in the global HIV response – would work rapidly to build facilities to manufacture vaccines and their constituent components at scale with the goal of supporting the production of enough doses to vaccinate the entire world within a year and providing countries with the resources needed to distribute and deliver the vaccines.

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