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Devex: Gates Foundation COVID-19 commitment reaches $1.75B with latest pledge “The world is ‘not on track’ for an equitable COVID-19 vaccine rollout, according to Mark Suzman, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Despite the unprecedented pace of progress in research and development for COVID-19 vaccines, a number of…

Amnesty International: Campaigners warn that 9 out of 10 people in poor countries are set to miss out on COVID-19 vaccine next year “Nearly 70 poor countries will only be able to vaccinate one in ten people against COVID-19 next year unless urgent action is taken by governments and the…

AP: African health official blasts ‘terrible’ vaccine inequality ” ‘It will be extremely terrible to see’ rich countries receiving COVID-19 vaccines while African countries go without, especially as a new surge in cases begins on the continent of 1.3 billion people, Africa’s top public health official said Thursday. As the…

NPR: Latin America Is Facing A Hunger Pandemic “Latin America is facing a pandemic of malnutrition. Hunger and obesity are rising side by side in the region. The working poor who can’t afford a nutritious diet are suffering at times from a lack of food and at others from an…

UNAIDS: Fund to help key populations during COVID-19 launched “UNAIDS announces the launch of its Solidarity Fund, which will support social entrepreneurs and micro-business owned by key populations facing special hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic. … To be piloted initially in five countries — Brazil, Ghana, India, Madagascar, and Uganda…

TIME: ‘2021 Is Going To Be Catastrophic.’ For the Director of the World Food Programme, Winning the Nobel Peace Prize Is No Cause for Celebration “…On Dec. 10, [World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley] will accept the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the WFP. In an interview ahead…

New Humanitarian/Center for Global Development: Money Talks: Rethinking Humanitarianism Episode 5 In the fifth episode of the Rethinking Humanitarianism podcast series, hosts Jeremy Konyndyk and Heba Aly “dive into how mistrust, monopolies, and perverse incentives are shaping humanitarian response” (12/9).

AP: Pfizer vaccine moves closer to getting the OK in the U.S. “U.S. regulators Tuesday released their first scientific evaluation of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine and confirmed it offers strong protection, setting the stage for the government to green light the biggest vaccination effort in the nation’s history. The analysis by…

Wall Street Journal: Two in U.K. Suffer Allergic Reaction to Pfizer’s Covid-19 Vaccine “Two of the first people vaccinated in the U.K. on Tuesday with the Pfizer Inc.-BioNTech SE shot responded adversely to the injection, the country’s National Health Service said, prompting the regulator to issue new guidance warning those…