Need to ensure a global pandemic treaty: DCVMN CEO

Vaccine development generally takes 8 to 10 years, whereas Covid-19 was completed in about 9 months. To ensure that capacities are increased in the event of future pandemics, we must ensure that there is a single worldwide pandemic treaty. The Developing Countries Vaccine Manufacturing Network (DCVMN), a network of more than 40 vaccine producers dispersed throughout all WHO regions, is led by Rajinder Suri, CEO.

Speaking to The Indian Express on the sidelines of the DCVMN's 23rd annual general meeting in Pune, Suri said that they have provided 8 billion doses of the Covid vaccine, or 60% of the world's total vaccine production in 20 months. More than 2 billion doses have been generated in India over the past 20 months, and about 68.8% of the population has received all available protection, he continued.

The CEO of DCVMN said that there have been regional disparities and specifically mentioned Africa, where only 1% of the continent's overall demand for vaccines is being produced there. The remainder is therefore being imported. By 2063, they will have more than 60% of their manufacturing locally thanks to a platform that the African Centre for Disease Control has now floated, according to Suri.

Speakers at a panel discussion on sustainability and lessons learned earlier in the day, which was moderated by Julia Kuhn, officer for strategy planning and management at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, claimed that DCVMN can communicate with governments and vaccine producers through umbrella associations to identify training initiatives for future pandemic preparedness. The panellists were admonished to avoid making the pandemic response political.

Member states were urged to create pandemic preparedness strategies, according to World Health Organization specialist Dr. Martin Nicholson on vaccine manufacture. While other speakers also brought up the question of how these forums can be used for global accountability and responsibility when policies that are recommended are not implemented, Dr. Nicholson stated that "post-covid they need to evaluate preparation plans and not just store it on the shelf."

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