Civil society statement delivered at the WHO Director-General’s TB Vaccine Accelerator Council
Mike Frick, TAG TB Project Co-Director, delivered comments as a civil society representative at the WHO Director-General’s TB Vaccine Accelerator Council meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.
Mike Frick, TB Project Co-Director at Treatment Action Group (TAG), delivered comments as a civil society representative at the 2nd high-level meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General's TB Vaccine Accelerator Council on 28 May 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland.
"Funding for TB vaccine research must avoid past mistakes made with other diseases: it must be deployed under the right conditions to ensure that research is accelerated in tandem with - and not at the expense of - equitable access, and also align with other important goals such as the move to regional, diversified manufacturing."