Pfizer To Learn From Pandemic For Health Equity Initiative

25 May 2022

The “Accord for a Healthier World” pledges to provide patent-protected medicines on a not-for-profit basis in 45 lower-income nations. Pfizer, which profited most from the COVID-19 pandemic, sees the pandemic experience as a way to advance health equity.

Pfizer will provide 23 medicines on non-profit basis in 45 countries

Pfizer Inc. is building on the experience gained during the pandemic, and the unprecedented windfall of profits from its COVID-19 vaccine, to roll out a plan it calls “An Accord for a Healthier World” that will provide current and future patented medications and vaccines on a not-for-profit basis to 45 lower-income countries, beginning with Rwanda, Ghana, Malawi, Uganda and Senegal. CEO Albert Bourla told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on 25 May the initiative will build on what has been learned in providing COVID-19 vaccines globally and address the many obstacles to health care equity in less wealthy nations.

The effort is expected to benefit 1.2 billion people in the 45 lower-income or lower-middle-income countries, most in the southern...