What is the ACT-Accelerator
This is a unique partnership of many of the world's international health organizations who have come together to share, and build on, individual expertise to create a powerful global solution that will ensure equity in access to tests, vaccines, treatments across the world with one goal: to reduce the burden of the COVID-19 pandemic by addressing the cause.
The ACT-Accelerator is organized into four pillars of work: diagnostics, treatment, vaccines and health system strengthening. Each pillar is vital to the overall effort and involves innovation and collaboration.
Cross-cutting all of the work, and fundamental to the goals of the ACT-Accelerator, is the Access and Allocation workstream that is led by WHO and is developing the principles, framework and mechanisms needed to ensure the fair and equitable allocation of these tools.
Focus areas
Diagnostics
The diagnostics pillar, co-convened by the Global Fund and FIND, has an overall objective to significantly increase access to COVID-19 tests and sequencing, which will ensure effective test, trace, isolate, and treat strategies, as well as early identification and containment of new variants.
Therapeutics
Therapeutics can play a role in all stages of COVID-19 disease: to prevent infection; suppress symptoms and spread of infection to others; treat or prevent symptoms; as a life-saving treatment for severe symptoms; and as a treatment that can speed up recovery. The Therapeutics Pillar supports access to safe and effective therapeutics of assured quality to save millions of lives from COVID-19 and to minimise its global health and economic threat. The therapeutics pillar is led by Unitaid and Wellcome.
Vaccines
Health Systems & Response Connector
