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By Janet E Silver. Published on Dec 14, 2020 5:26pm
International Development Minister Karina Gould (Matthew Usherwood/iPolitics)
Specifically, Ottawa will help women, adolescents, and children access nutritional supplements.
About $485 million will help developing countries procure and distribute COVID vaccines, International Development Minister Karina Gould announced today.
Over half that, $255 million, will be for the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator, a program launched by the World Health Organization in April to ensure poor countries have access to treatments and vaccines.
Gould said the remaining $230 million is for UNICEF to buy three million antibody therapeutics for developing countries, once the treatments are approved.