JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
AT THE END OF MAY 2023-THE WHO WILL HAVE GLOBAL GOVERNANCE OVER
WORLD HEALTH CARE. TROUBLE. STOP TRUDEAU FROM GIVING CANADAS SOVERIGNTY
TO THE WHO.
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-FALSE RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
REVELATION 13:16-18 (WORLD ECONOMY RUN BY THE EUROPEAN UNION)
16
And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor,
free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their
foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the
beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred
threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM
REVELATION 17:12-13
12
And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have
received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with
the beast.(SOCIALISM)
13 These have one mind,(SOCIALISM) and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
REVELATION 6:1-2
1
And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it
were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2
And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a
bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU)
and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)
2 THESSALONIANS 2:9-12
9 Even him,(EU WORLD DICTATOR) whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish;
because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be
saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion,(THE
FALSE RESURRECTION BY THE WORLD DICTATOR) that they should believe a
lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
GENESIS 49:16-17-POSSIBLY A JEW FROM DAN KILLS THE DICTATOR AT MIDPOINT OF TRIB
16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
REVELATION 13:3,7,8 (WORLD GOVERNMENT, WORLD ECONOMY, WORLD RELIGION)
1
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of
the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten
crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS
DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a
leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the
mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and
great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw
one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly
wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after
the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
7
And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and
to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and
tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the
earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of
life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD
DICTATOR).
THE PRESENT DARKNESS MICHELLE BACHMANN-JAN MARKELL ON WHO WORLD DICTATORSHIP (END OF MAY 2023)
https://www.oneplace.com/ministries/understanding-the-times/
https://bottradionetwork.com/ministry/family-talk/2023-04-03-world-health-organization-power-grab-a-threat-to-us-sovereignty-i/
Is
Biden Preparing To Give Sovereignty of US to WHO?-The United States is
working with the World Health Organization's 193 other members to
prepare for another global pandemic.Dan Evon-Published May 17, 2022
This
claim stemmed from talks in 2022 among WHO's member states, which
include the U.S., around amending existing International Health
Regulations. As of this writing, while there was no official version of
what the WHO was calling a "pandemic preparedness accord," the Biden
administration had released its own ideas, and they did not include a
plan to give the nation's sovereignty to the WHO, or offer ways for the
WHO to gain new authority to implement lockdowns.Fact Check-In May 2022,
rumors surfaced claiming that U.S. President Joe Biden was planning to
give the country's sovereignty over health issues to the World Health
Organization (WHO), along with the leaders of 193 other countries. While
these rumors stemmed from genuine proposals that United Nation members
were discussing at the time to strengthen the world's preparedness
against global pandemics, they grossly exaggerated, distorted, and
misinterpreted the actual impacts of the proposed ideas.For example, one
popular claim held that proposed amendments to existing guidelines
would grant WHO the authority to lock down countries. Former Republican
Rep. Michele Bachmann popularized that assertion when she discussed the
issue in an interview with Steve Bannon, a political strategist who was
charged with defrauding people before he was pardoned by former
President Donald Trump.During this interview, Bachmann said:'There are
193 nations belonging to the UN. The Biden administration is bringing
amendments that were proposed that all nations of the Earth cede their
sovereignty over their national health care decisions to the WHO. 'This
means that the WHO would have decision-making authority to intervene in
the United States government policy and any nation of the world without
our permission; for instance, the lockdown where you see 26 million
people today locked down in Shangai, China. They can’t leave their
apartments or homes. The WHO would have the authority to be able to
enforce that here in the United States, on whatever pretext they want.
They don’t have to show data. They could do this.'While it was true that
almost 200 countries (including the U.S.) were members of WHO, and that
that group was discussing potential changes to how they work together
as of spring 2022 (we elaborate on that fact below), Bachmann's claim
that those talks could result in the WHO having new authority to
implement lockdowns in the United States or any other country was
untrue.What Are WHO Members Proposing To Change? In 1969, the WHO
adopted a set of guidelines known as the International Health
Regulations (IHR) in order to empower the international health agency to
surveil global diseases. International officials have revised the
regulations a few times over the years, including in 2005 after the
2002-2003 SARS outbreak. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) wrote:The International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005 are a
legally binding agreement of 196 countries to build the capability to
detect and report potential public health emergencies worldwide. IHR
require that all countries have the ability to detect, assess, report,
and respond to public health events.In December 2021, following the
deaths of nearly 6 million people around the globe from the COVID-19
pandemic, world leaders started working on amendments to the IHR in
order to strengthen the world's response to the next global
pandemic.Reuters reported that some proposed amendments involved the
sharing of data related to emerging viruses, a ban on wildlife markets,
and a plan for equitable vaccine distribution. The European Union
proposed that the ideas take the form of a new treaty, though the U.S.
and other countries expressed reluctancy toward such a binding
agreement, Reuters reported. In other words, as of this writing, WHO
members were discussing the proposed amendments to existing regulations,
and the exact contents of a future "pandemic preparedness accord" were
unknown.Reuters reported:A new pact is among more than 200
recommendations for shoring up the world's defences against new
pathogens made by various reviewers following the COVID-19 pandemic that
has killed more than 6.2 million people in two years.Negotiations on
new rules for dealing with pandemics will begin at the World Health
Organization on Thursday, with a target date of May 2024 for a treaty to
be adopted by the U.N. health agency's 194 member countries
[...]-Suggested proposals for the pact include the sharing of data and
genome sequences of emerging viruses and rules on equitable vaccine
distribution. The European Union is pushing for a ban on wildlife
markets and incentives for reporting of new viruses or variants, an EU
official told Reuters.Would Biden's Proposals Give WHO New Authority
Over Lockdowns? While there was no official version of what the WHO was
calling a "pandemic preparedness accord" among members, the Biden
administration had released its ideas for how it would like to amend
existing international guidelines. Those amendments (available via a PDF
on the WHO's website for public viewing) did not outline ways for the
WHO to gain new authority to implement U.S. lockdowns. In fact, the
amendments made no mention of "lockdowns" at all.That said, it was still
possible that the WHO could recommend a lockdown in a region due to a
contagious disease. But that recommendation would still require
government action in order to take place, and that system was already in
place, with or without the proposed amendments by Biden's
team.Additionally, nowhere in this document did the presidential
administration propose to give WHO the authority to override the
decisions of any member state, nor to give up its national
sovereignty.In general, the Biden administration's proposed amendments
dealt with monitoring emerging diseases, implementing a notification
system across countries, and developing strategies for WHO officials to
assist member states in times of emergency. For example, Article 12, a
section of the document that dealt with the "determination of a public
health emergency," stated that when a global health threat is
determined, the Director-General of WHO "shall notify all States Parties
and seek to consult with the State Party in whose territory the event
arises."WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus addressed some of the
above-outlined rumors during his opening remarks at a media briefing on
May 17. Ghebreyesus dismissed the notion that any country was giving up
its sovereignty by working on the potential agreement between WHO
members, and stated that they, not WHO officials, were driving the
work.Ghebreyesus said:The accord process is led by Member States with
their own Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (called INB), representing
all regions of the world. The INB has now started a two-year process
that includes global public hearings with all stakeholders. This
represents the world’s opportunity to plan together, detect pathogens
quicker, share data broadly and collectively respond more effectively to
the next diseases X or known pathogens. Unfortunately, there has been a
small minority of groups making misleading statements and purposefully
distorting facts. I want to be crystal clear. WHO’s agenda is public,
open and transparent. WHO stands strongly for individual rights. We
passionately support everyone’s right to health and we will do
everything we can to ensure that that right is realized.The first ever
World Health Assembly, which took place soon after the WHO Constitution
entered into force in 1948, was a watershed event in global public
health. And like the proposed pandemic preparedness accord, this did not
mean WHO usurped nations’ sovereignty; in fact it strengthened
countries’ ability to fight diseases together. WHO is an expression of
Member States' own sovereignty and WHO is entirely what the sovereign
194 Member States want WHO to be. Every year, these sovereign
governments come together at the World Health Assembly to set the health
agenda for the world. Individually we can’t beat pandemics; our best
chance is together [...]-The accord process is at the very beginning of a
multiyear Member State-led negotiation, which will only be finalized in
2024 after multiple public hearings around the world. And all voices
will be heard. The essence of the proposed pandemic preparedness accord
is to improve cooperation, coordination, and the sharing of data,
information, biological materials and lifesaving tools.
Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly-#WHA76-Last updated: 19 April 2023
The
Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly is being held in Geneva,
Switzerland, on 21–30 May 2023.Proceedings will be webcast live from
this web page. Simultaneous interpretation is available in Arabic,
Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.Theme-During the
Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly, a series of strategic roundtables
are being held. During these sessions, WHA delegates, partner agencies,
representatives of civil society and WHO experts will discuss current
and future priorities for public health issues of global importance.The
World Health Assembly is the decision-making body of WHO. It is attended
by delegations from all WHO Member States and focuses on a specific
health agenda prepared by the Executive Board. The main functions of the
World Health Assembly are to determine the policies of the
Organization, appoint the Director-General, supervise financial
policies, and review and approve the proposed programme budget. The
Health Assembly is held annually in Geneva, Switzerland.Due to the
ongoing renovation of the Palais des Nations, the number of rooms
available and their capacity is limited. Access to meeting rooms is
restricted. Additionally, there will be no side events held at the
Palais des Nations. The venues at the Palais des Nations are: Plenary --
room XIX; Committee A -- room XX; and Committee B -- room XVII.
WORLD HEALTHY ASSEMBLY
The
World Health Assembly is the decision-making body of WHO. It is
attended by delegations from all WHO Member States and focuses on a
specific health agenda prepared by the Executive Board. The main
functions of the World Health Assembly are to determine the policies of
the Organization, appoint the Director-General, supervise financial
policies, and review and approve the proposed programme budget. The
Health Assembly is held annually in Geneva, Switzerland.
Governments
hold second round of detailed discussions on proposed amendments to the
International Health Regulations (2005)-21 April 2023 News release-WHO
Governments
this week examined in detail more than a third of over 300 proposed
amendments to the WHO International Health Regulations 2005 (IHR). In
this third round of intensive discussions, taking place under the aegis
of the Working Group on Amendments to the IHR (WGIHR), the 196 State
Parties to the IHR – which include WHO’s 194 Member States[i] - examined
proposed amendments to the articles related to public health response,
core capacities for surveillance and response, collaboration and
assistance, as well as the six newly proposed articles and one new
Annex. The IHR were originally adopted to set out agreed approaches and
obligations for countries to prepare for, and respond to, disease
outbreaks and other acute public health events with risk of
international spread. The original International Sanitary Regulations
were revised three times – in 1969 (when they became International
Health Regulations), in 1981, and in 2005. The third edition (2005) has
been amended twice – in 2014 and 2022. The newest proposed amendments
come in response to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. “We
made excellent progress this week, covering more than a third of the
proposed amendments, and considered critical areas such as core
capacities for surveillance and response, and collaboration and
assistance. Three new articles on compliance and implementation were
also discussed, as well as new articles related to the public health
response, such a proposal for finance mechanisms, access to health
products, technologies and know-how during public health response,” said
Dr Ashley Bloomfield, former Director-General of Health, New Zealand
and Co-Chair of the IHR Working Group. “COVID showed the world how
vulnerable we all are and what needed fixing in the global public health
architecture if we are to be better prepared for the next big event and
the tone of the discussions during this week’s meeting clearly shows
that everyone wants to ensure that this process is successful.”
Throughout the four-day meeting from 17-20 April, the 196 State Parties
to the IHR stressed the importance of thoroughly considering the
proposed amendments on their merits of filling critical gaps in the
implementation of the IHR, while being mindful of the critical
importance of the principles of equity, sovereignty, and solidarity.
Fellow IHR Working Group Co-Chair, Dr Abdullah M. Assiri, Deputy
Minister of Health, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, said governments were
committed to strengthening the IHR for the benefit of every country and
every citizen. “Countries are in the driving seat of this process as
they need to implement the IHR, deliver on the obligations, and make the
key decisions needed to respond to public health threats. Together,
this week, we have seen how their positive tone and constructive work
has allowed us to move work substantially forward,” said Dr Assiri. In
the lead-up to the meeting, an independent and diverse team of experts
prepared a technical assessment of the proposed amendments to assist
countries in their negotiations. It is expected that the WGIHR will meet
again three times in 2023 – in July, October and December – to discuss
and agree on amendments and present a package of proposed amendments to
the World Health Assembly in May 2024. In parallel with the IHR
amendments process, governments are also negotiating the drafting of a
WHO instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response, also
referred to as a pandemic accord. Governments will meet again from 12-16
June 2023 to consider the zero draft of the accord as a basis for a
first draft as the basis for negotiation. The WGIHR supported the
proposal from the fifth meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating
Body for the drafting of the WHO pandemic instrument (INB5) to hold a
joint plenary meeting of the two bodies. WHO Member States issued the
International Sanitary Regulations in 1951, the precursor to the IHR,
which came into being in 2005. The IHR are an instrument of
international law that is legally-binding on 196 State Parties,
including the 194 WHO Member States.[i] Liechtenstein and the Holy See
are State Parties to the IHR but not Member States of WHO.
WHO
releases the largest global collection of health inequality data-20
April 2023 News release(NOTICE GLOBAL DATA)(ALL THE WORLD)
Today,
WHO is launching the Health Inequality Data Repository, the most
comprehensive global collection of publicly available disaggregated data
and evidence on population health and its determinants. The repository
allows for tracking health inequalities across population groups and
over time, by breaking down data according to group characteristics,
ranging from education level to ethnicity.The data from the repository
show that, in just a decade, the rich-poor gap in health service
coverage among women, newborns and children in low- and middle-income
countries has nearly halved. They also reveal that, in these countries,
eliminating wealth-related inequality in under-five mortality could help
save the lives of 1.8 million children.The Health Inequality Data
Repository (HIDR) includes nearly 11 million data points and consists of
59 datasets from over 15 sources. The data include measurements of over
2000 indicators broken down by 22 dimensions of inequality, including
demographic, socioeconomic and geographical factors. Topics covered
include: the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); COVID-19;
reproductive, maternal and child health; immunization; HIV;
tuberculosis; malaria; nutrition; health care; non-communicable diseases
and environmental health.“The ability to direct services to those who
need them the most is vital to advancing health equity and improving
lives. Designed as a one-stop-shop for data on health inequality, the
Repository will help us move beyond only counting births and deaths, to
disaggregating health data according to sex, age, education, region and
more,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “If we
are truly committed to leaving no one behind, we must figure out who is
being missed.”However, disaggregated data are still not available for
many health indicators, and where they are available, they are most
frequently broken down only by sex and, to a lesser extent, by age and
place of residence. For instance, only 170 of the 320 indicators in
WHO’s gateway for health-related statistics, the Global Health
Observatory, are disaggregated, of which 116, or two thirds, are
disaggregated only by sex.Though limited, the available disaggregated
data reveal important inequality patterns. In high-income countries,
hypertension is more common among men than women and obesity rates are
similar among men and women. By contrast, in low-income countries,
hypertension rates are similar among women and men, but obesity rates
are higher among women than men.The repository also reveals inequalities
in national COVID-19 responses. In 2021, in more than a third of the 90
countries with data, COVID-19 vaccination coverage among the most
educated was at least 15 percentage points higher than among the least
educated.Releasing the HIDR, WHO is calling on countries to adopt
routine health inequality monitoring, make disaggregated data publicly
available, expand data collection and increase capacity for analysis and
reporting. Inequality analyses should be conducted regularly at the
global, national and subnational levels, with health inequality
monitoring integrated into global and national goals, indicators and
targets, and health performance assessments. WHO is committed to working
with countries and partners to update and expand this resource
annually.Notes to editors-In addition to WHO, major data sources
include: the UNICEF Data Warehouse; DHS Program; UNAIDS; United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP); United Nations Statistics SDG Indicators
Database; Eurostat; World Bank; Organisation for Economic Co-operation
and Development (OECD); Global Data Lab; Global COVID-19 Trends and
Impact Survey; and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
(IHME).All the datasets of the HIDR can be explored using the Health
Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT) software and downloaded through the
Health Inequality Monitor website, as well as via an Application
Programming Interface (API).The HIDR will be launched during a webinar
on 20 April 2023, from 13:00 – 14:15 CET.A review of WHO resources and
contributions for strengthening and expanding health inequality
monitoring for the advancement of health equity can also be found in the
International Journal for Equity in Health.
mRNA Technology Transfer Programme moves to the next phase of its development-20 April 2023 Statement-Cape Town, South Africa
Inauguration
of the mRNA technology Hub facility at Afrigen, South Africa.Partners
gather in Cape Town to discuss the next phase of the mRNA vaccine
development and knowledge sharing.Over 200 international participants
working with the mRNA Technology Transfer Programme met in Cape Town
this week for their first face-to-face meeting. Joined by World Health
Organization (WHO) Director General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and
Dr. Joe Phaahla, Minister of Health and Minister of Trade and Industry,
Mr. Ebrahim Patel of South Africa together with high-level officials
from funding countries, this unique meeting reviewed the progress since
WHO and Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) launched it in June 2021.“I am
delighted to be here in Cape Town with our partners to support a
sustainable model for mRNA technology transfer to give low- and
middle-income countries equitable access to vaccines and other
lifesaving health products,” said WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus. “I am immensely proud of the achievement of all those
involved in this project; in less than two years we have shown that when
we work collaboratively, we succeed collectively.”The meeting
participants include biomanufacturing partners from 15 countries in the
Programme, leading experts, industry, civil society representatives, and
funders. During the five-day meeting, participants will share progress
and discuss critical enablers for the sustainability of the Programme
such as intellectual property issues and regulatory aspects, as well as
the science of mRNA technologies and key applications relevant to LMICs
in other disease areas such as HIV and tuberculosis.The COVID-19
pandemic has underscored that gross inequity exists in access to health
products, especially vaccines. As of March 2023, more than three years
after WHO declared COVID-19 a Public Health Emergency of International
Concern (PHEIC), 69.7% of the global population had received at least
one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Notably, this proportion still remains
below 30% in low-income countries (LICs) .This Programme aims to
contribute to equitable access to mRNA vaccines by increasing the
distribution of sustainable manufacturing capacity across LMICs,
enhancing regional and inter-regional collaborations, and developing and
empowering a local workforce through tailored and inclusive training
and expert support. What is unique in the mRNA Technology Transfer model
is the multilateral process that allows sharing of technologies to
multiple recipients so that through local and regional production those
in need can be reached rapidly.Dr Phaahla, Minister of Health South
Africa, said: “What we see here today, is a moment in history, a
Programme that is aimed at empowering LMICs through a global
collaborative network. I am thrilled to see the progress made in such a
relatively short time and welcome the support from so many different
countries - countries like South Africa that have a strong vibrant
biomanufacturing capacity and that are willing to work together, learn
from and share with each other.”Minister Blade Nzimande of Higher
Education and Science, said: “Ours is the vision of the mRNA Technology
Transfer Hub beyond just COVID-19. The capabilities we are building are
looking to empower us to deal with other future pandemics whose vaccines
could use the same mRNA technology platform. It is a vision that has
set its eyes on diseases that are prevalent in our environments such as
Malaria, Tuberculosis and HIV and AIDS.”This occasion also marks an
important milestone for the Programme with the inauguration of the mRNA
technology Hub facility at Afrigen in Cape Town in the presence of Dr.
Tedros and Dr. Matshidiso Moeti WHO Regional Director for Africa,
Charles Gore Executive Director of MPP and the Honorable Ministers who
took part in a ribbon cutting ceremony at Afrigen.Professor Petro
Terblanche, Executive Director of Afrigen said: “The entire Afrigen team
are thrilled to reach this important milestone with the completion of
the mRNA technology platform. This platform is housed within the
end-to-end mRNA vaccine development and production facility where the
mRNA Hub Covid 19 vaccine candidate AfriVac 2121 is currently in
scale-up phase. Over the last 18 months, Afrigen has undergone an
incredible transformation with the support of a network of partners and
mentors enabled by this Programme. We have grown our capability and
capacity to meet the highest quality standards of mRNA vaccine
development, serving the objective to build sustainable capacity in
LMICs to produce mRNA vaccines”.Afrigen has successfully established a
COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing process at a laboratory scale and is
currently scaling up that process to a level suitable for manufacturing
vaccine batches to be used in Phase I/ II clinical trials to GMP
standards. In a parallel process, Afrigen will continue to carry out
training and technology transfer to the network partners.The funders
play a crucial role in supporting the Programme with total funding to
date at US$ 117 million and France being the first to fund the mRNA
technology transfer work. Present at the meeting were representatives
from the European Commission, Belgium, Germany, as well as Norway,
Canada, African Union, South Africa, and the ELMA Foundation.Caroline
Delany, GlobalAffairs Canada’s Director General for Southern and Eastern
Africa said: “Canada reaffirms its continued support of the mRNA
Technology Transfer Programme and we are delighted to announce a further
contribution of 15 million Canadian dollars at the meeting today. This
brings Canada’s total contribution to the Programme up to 45 million
Canadian dollars. These funds support the running of the Hub in South
Africa as well as network partners around the world. We firmly believe
in the importance of building capacity at local and regional level”.Mr
Martin Seychell, Deputy Executive Director European Commission, said.
“The EC has already contributed €40 million to the establishment of the
mRNA technology transfer Hub and has recently signed another grant with
the EIB for €15,5 million to facilitate the expansion of vaccines
manufacturing capacity. This is part of the overall investment under the
EU Global Gateway strategy, where more than €1 Billion have been
mobilised under the Team Europe Initiative on Manufacturing health
products. It is now particularly important to also address possible
regulatory and demand bottlenecks, to ensure not only production of
vaccines of the highest standard in all regions of the world, but also
rapid and equitable access to those vaccines.”
