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And although the finish line may appear in sight, the w h o is warning against complacency. Its released 6 policy documents to guide governments. They include advice on distributing vaccines, testing and managing misinformation. We have never been in a better position to end the pandemic. Were not there yet, but the end is inside. If we dont take this opportunity, now, we run the risk of more variance more does more disruption and more unsafe or to say uncertainty. So let says this opportunity. Despite the optimism the lawn set, medical journal found at what it called massive global failures in response to pandemic. It established a coven 19 commission in 2020, to look at science space policies, Global Corporation and finance. And its critical on all levels saying, Health Authorities went fast enough in their response. The outbreak. There were delays and acknowledging coven 19 was spreading my air. And governments were often influenced by misinformation and protested against taking basic precautions to safeguard Public Health. And there was a shortfall in Global Funding for low and middle Income Countries. Ah, thats brainer. Guess in geneva, dr. Margaret harris, a spokeswoman for the World Health Organization, Jeffrey Lazarus, who heads the Health Systems that Research Group at boss learns institute for global health. He joins us from dublin and in a Boucher Sarah marker, interim africa director for the one campaign. Welcome all of you to the show. I want to begin in geneva 1st with Margaret Harris. So the w i chose released 6 key policy documents. Are they effectively a blueprint on how to do things better in lee . There actually a distillation of what weve learned in the last 32 months of this terrible pandemic. And we have learned some really important lessons. Theyre also a plea to governments to actually apply them because now the time to really double down not to relax. So letter in a boucher sir. It must be very disappointing for you, that the w h o has said the end is inside, and they release this b 6 policy documents. But the content on the african continent had huge amounts of trouble actually getting vaccines early on distributing those vaccines. There is a specific policy document for the african continent that must be frustrating for you. You know, one of the things that we had an awakening on with this pandemic and the continent is not just of debilitating nature. That the Health Crisis brought especially in the peak of it, but the twin economic crisis that is happening and unfolding as we speak. So this time last year, countries came together in 70 or 70 percent are all income country population should be fascinated by the end of this year. Most high income country is about 63. 9 percent or so. The african continent is still at 22. 6 percent. If we start on this, continue on this page, it will take us 4 to 5 years to read 70 percent. So what id like to see in such a global documents is not only what have we learned, which is really important. I mean, some of the things that i hope are in there are the vaccine inequity. You know, we saw africas lack of vaccine sovereignty. The low Income Countries getting higher prices that seem to the peak of this Vaccine Hesitancy across the below, quite frankly, including africa. But i think what i would like to see as well is how do we a learn from this will be recognize that its not just a Health Crisis. Its actually also an economic crisis that is still ongoing. Well, lets talk about the economics of all of this. Jeffrey lazarus is in dublin, jeffrey. But this cost governments billions of dollars. Its not something that theyre going to want to repeat. The w, a chosen voice, is actually if they implemented properly, the way the w h i wanted to implanted is actually going to cost them billions of dollars. Again, if theres another pandemic, theres got to be hesitancy there, right . Is definitely hesitancy hesitancy. I mean, governments are thinking about politics, theyre also thinking about economics, as you mentioned, and they dont always play the long game if they had acted earlier. Even just before w h r announced that as a Public Health emergency of international concerned back in january 2020, i really dont think wed be where we are now. And i think if they followed the chose advice, but also, you know, many other organizations and Strong Research about how to control it ultimately end the pandemic. As a Public Health threat, i think they be not just saving money now and, and in the long run, but also saving lives were facing. You know, well, earlier were faced with huge numbers of deaths and very high, very high, much holiday. Now its really a question of morbidity, long cove id and so much suffering because governments are not reacting strongly enough longer in geneva, youve heard what a 2 guests that have had to say. It sounds like you need a document that has been motif eci. These is a distillation of what weve learned, but we have many documents with a lot of tape. And id like to say with africa particularly, but not just africa, but countries that were at the back of the queue. Note, we knew would be at the back of the queue for vaccines for all the, the equipment for the tests, because were seeing this over and over and over again. The wealthy, the well resourced, grab all the resources very quickly. We set up the accelerator in 2020, for that very reason. Now, it has not been perfect and that has not achieved all the things we wanted to achieve, but we have got vaccines out too many, many countries. We have not done nearly as well as we need to i thats absolutely correct to say that many countries in africa are not in a position. We want to be in line. We have 11 Member States that have vaccinated less than 10 percent of their populations. Whereas the 1st of these policy briefs that it really emphasizes the need to vaccinate a 100 percent of your high risk groups. Thats your older people in your health care workers. So it is really, really important to have raised the issue of getting those vaccination levels up. And id like to say thank professor lazarus for pointing out exactly the critical thing. Governments need to act when the that the alarm is raised and, and act together and really apply things if they spend the money early might seem like a bit of money. But its so much less money than weve all lost. And the terrible economic consequences were seen as a result of not acting early. When the alarm was raised, governments need to act together. Jeffrey is something that you did mention, but we dont have a Un Security Council for health. We dont have a, a mechanism where governments can discuss a unified approach. And that during the pandemic was laid bare, but was going to sign up today. Although, i mean, how do you get governments to act in unity who we do have a Un Security Council and almost 20 years ago they did pass a resolution on h i v aids as a major security threat. So, you know, there is that option to go through the Security Council, and we also have the World Health Assembly, which governs w h o, and thats where they have been discussing covered 19. What id like to see is similar to other w, h, or strategies that all Member States have signed on to whether its vital hepatitis h i v or other conditions that we have, those 6 policy documents, but also all of the other guidance and information in one place with a clear set of targets, a commitment to measure it, and having that approved at the World Health Assembly or at an emergency meeting of the World Health Assembly. So we can be monitoring and also that we know what exactly needs to be done. And when it needs to be done, because right now, you know, as was mentioned, there are a lot of w h, a documents. Theres a lot of technical guidance, normative standards, where we need it very clearly in one place or what to do. And when and for governments to approve it, its interesting. You mentioned h i v aids and particularly the Security Council act and when aids was confined to the african continent, i remember as a teenager growing up in the u. K. People werent to be talking about is only when it became a question to you. Sarah. A problem within the west, the government started to act and the security else got involved that ever happened this time around. Do you think that needs to be a stronger, much more global focused Alliance Just for health . You know, its really, as just, we mentioned earlier, the lots of policy documents. The question is, theyre not just the commitment but the delivery on the process. So even this time around a lot of houses mean the g 20, the g 7 manual western countries promised a lot. For example, we will recycle a 100000000000. 00 in s d r special during rest african countries just across the fiscal constraints. Today, were at 58000000000 pledge to be a cycle. How much has been actually recycled the country . 0. So theres a gap between the promise and the actual delivery and not we need to bridge. Its not enough to have the policy document. Its not enough to make the declaration at the un or what the g 7, g 20. What really matters is the delivery and i, with this pandemic, it seemed like if the world was a building on one part of building was on fire, as long as folks in the other part, there were not that was not a prior feel safe. They didnt put out the fire, but the truth of the mattress, these issues just like any other interconnected issues. Whatever happens over there that you over that eventually. But were not seeing that intellectual connection being made to be matched with the political will of government. And we thing a lot of politics in it, quite frankly, i dont want to take apart from it affecting people in the west. I dont know what else he says to have people see us all as interconnected and what were not all of us are not see until each of us nazi and all of us. It sort of its housing that for a while and one campaign. And yes that, that the narrative. Ready is catching is catching up with folks understanding it, but we still need to bridge the promises or the delivery. Well there i see you nodding in agreement there to what sarah locker has been saying, but the launch medical journal at its commission, theyve issued their report. If this was a School Report that would be lost, try harder. Theres a lot of criticism. Health authorities werent fast enough in their response. The outbreak, though, a delays acknowledging that code 19 was spreading by add the list goes on of criticisms. How do you deal with how you make sure that weve learned and we can do better . I think one of the critical things is having a good and continuing assessment of whats going on all the time and always updating and really learning and looking. So again, its good to have commissions and reports like this, the but sarah made it another important point. You can go back to previous outbreaks. I mentioned before, we knew that the well result countries would be grabbing all the resources because weve seen that in previous outbreaks. So lets make this a time. The world says, with god, wed love all these lessons. Lets apply them. Can we really Work Together that if my hope from all of this, i have seen some of that with the science world, ive seen the scientific world working together day in day out. I would really like to say at this moment the people i would like to thank are all the scientists to come every day. Unpaid join thousands of meetings to debate, to argue that often disagree. But they have changed what weve understood about this. They developed the vaccines, they developed the changes in our understanding of how the virus works. They found the variance and this is something we should latch on to listen to the people who really are committed to working together and changing things and apply the lessons for us. Jeffrey, the launch medical Commission Report was pre made pretty bleak reading for people in the village. People who are very worried still about covered 19 well, find findings valid . I think they were and, and i would say it wasnt on the score or the grade wasnt try harder. That was the recommendation. It was trying much harder this. The grade was really the world collectively failed. And so we point out where the failures were in an effort to, to make changes moving ahead. Thats why we came out with 11 overall recommendations including strengthening w, h o and multilateralism. But also importantly, that we have a, you know, a global strategy. Every country has a preparedness plan. And i understand that countries didnt have those plans necessarily before the pandemic, even though w h o and others have always been encouraging them to do that. I remember from my own days at w h o, 20 years ago, we were asking countries to have these kinds of plans. And, but now, you know, over 2 and a half years into the pandemic, there are still most countries not having such a plan. The other recommendation, you know, we made is to have a vaccines class approach. So weve just heard that Vaccine Hesitancy, poor distribution. You know, almost a dozen countries are under 10 percent of the population vaccinated. Lots of concern about getting boosters when, how often which booster vaccine to use. But we also need to think beyond the vaccine. You know, how can we make the world a safer place, including better ventilation and air filtration even through simple things like Opening Doors and windows and weather permitting. Because we know that that helps disperse some the virus since the virus, you know, is transmitted through the air to aerosols, or ill bring in just a 2nd. But i want to change the flow of the conversation just for a minute jeffrey, im going to come back to you. What were talking about is the idea that you do things can be done better, and you have the recommendations. Youve made the recommendation, the w h o seems to have listened to those recommendations and issue these policy briefing documents were in effectively quite a good place for information for guidance. But youll still fighting anti vax is youre still fighting misinformation the, the internet and even people within my own family are still reading things that are plainly ridiculous. But they completely believe them the misinformation that was one of the biggest problems. And is that being addressed . Was w h o, you know, call this in for demick and rightly so there are those who are asking questions which is reasonable. But there are also those who are, you know, spreading misinformation, false information on purpose, you know, creating chaos and, and confusing and, and on a pretty regular basis. So we need a much better response, multilingual response. We also need to address just like its illegal to provide inside information that can affect the stocks and the s