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Blog Post
December 14, 2022
Four new CGD pieces, released today, examine the current state of play on COVID-19 oral antivirals. Our analyses provide a deep-dive in key cross-cutting areas—demand, voluntary licensing deals for generic supply, and deployment—and offer policy actions for 2023 and beyond.
Blog Post
December 02, 2022
An important debate is taking place in Europe right now on how to fund new antimicrobials. For months it has been speculated that the European Union may move towards implementing transferable exclusivity vouchers (TEVs). In response, 14 Member States wrote to the European Commission outlining why th...
Blog Post
November 23, 2022
This week is World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, a global campaign initiated by the World Health Organization (WHO) to improve awareness and understanding of AMR, yet only 44 percent of people have heard of AMR. We considered the portrayal of AMR in the media to determine how this might affect publi...
Blog Post
September 26, 2022
Antimicrobial resistance is a major global problem. Today, drug resistant infections kill an estimated 1.27 million people per year, and low- and middle-income countries bear the brunt of AMR-related deaths and illness. Changing how we buy antimicrobials can help solve the problem.
Blog Post
August 10, 2022
PEPFAR’s new strategy—to be released in final form later this year—focuses on how to accelerate progress toward epidemic control amidst continued impacts from COVID-19, while also strengthening core health system functions as well as partnership and coordination efforts; this is precisely what the c...
Blog Post
July 19, 2022
Decision makers within governments, aid agencies, multilateral organizations, and NGOs have not yet fully harnessed the value of evidence for better public policies. To address this missed opportunity, we convened a virtual working group from 2020 to 2022, bringing together 40 policymakers and exper...