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# 									COVID-19 Pandemic Prioritized Global Action Plan for Enhanced Engagement (GAP)							

As the world continues to grapple with COVID-19’s far-reaching impacts, there remains an urgent need for enhanced political engagement and coordination to end the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.  The COVID-19 Pandemic Prioritized Global Action Plan for Enhanced Engagement (“GAP”) builds on current global COVID-19 response activities and commitments made at events such as the Global COVID-19 Summits to bring together partners who can commit political will, leadership, and resources to help address acute needs strengthen readiness from a across geographical and/or sectoral perspectives, or both.

## Overarching Goal of the GAP

Enhance international coordination to end the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic and strengthen readiness for future pandemic threats.

### Six Core Lines of Effort for International Coordination

        - Get Shots in Arms –  Ensure vaccine doses turn into vaccinations around the world.
        - Bolster Supply Chain Resilience –  Facilitate sufficient, steady supplies of critical inputs, products, and materials.
        - Address Information Gaps –  Address information barriers and gaps to increase vaccine and therapeutic uptake.
        - Support Health Workers –  Support the health, safety, wellbeing, and effectiveness of frontline health workers.
        - Ensure Acute Non-Vaccine Interventions (Test and Treat) –  Ensure availability of non-vaccine, life-saving interventions where treatments and testing are needed most.
        - Strengthen Global Health Security Architecture –  Advance immediate and long-term reforms and governance that will bolster the current pandemic response as well as future global health security and pandemic preparedness.

## Outline for Enhanced Engagement and Coordination on the COVID-19 Pandemic Global Action Plan

### Core Areas of Focus for Coordination Through End of 2022

        - Get Shots in Arms –  Ensure safe and effective vaccines turn into vaccinations.           - Coordinate global vaccine supply              - Deliver supplies primarily through COVAX, with sufficient advance time and dose longevity to allow for proper planning by recipients. 
          - Improve Readiness and Support Administration (last mile, logistics, operations, vaccination campaigns)              - Identify readiness needs and gaps, and map key partners to areas in need. 
          - Support access to vaccines in conflict zones and other humanitarian settings              - Promote sufficient funding, vaccines, and supplies, and enable organizations to support integrated vaccination delivery to populations of concern. 
        - Bolster Supply Chain Resilience –  Facilitate sufficient, steady supplies of all critical products and materials related to breaking the cycle of the COVID-19 pandemic.           - Resolve immediate production gaps              - Establish a mechanism to match suppliers and potential producers. 
          - Increase resiliency, adaptability, and diversification to mitigate impact of future crisis scenarios               - Provide support to sustain diversified production. 
          - Identify and establish surge capacity requirements               - Determine needs and mechanisms to handle surge demand. 
          - Identify and mitigate emerging bottlenecks               - Establish an early warning system for problems with critical products and inputs.
            - Develop a process to take action on identified problems to minimize disruptions. 
        - Address Information Gaps –  Address information barriers and gaps to increase vaccine uptake.           - Counter misinformation:              - Identify misinformation and use evidence-based methods to combat the spread of false information. 
          - Counter disinformation:              - Counter the intentional state-led dissemination of false information for political gain. 
          - Increase vaccine confidence and uptake:              - Provide accurate, clear, effective messaging about vaccine efficacy and safety. 
        - Support and Protect Health Workers (HCW)–  Support health, safety, wellbeing of frontline health workers.           - Improve health, safety, and well-being of HCWs              - Support health workers, including ensuring access to sufficient and quality personal protective equipment and vaccinations 
          - Support training and education              - Increase specialized appropriate training, including for immunization, treatment, infection prevention and control, contact tracing, field epidemiology, and surveillance. 
        - Facilitate Acute Non-Vaccine Interventions (Test and Treat) –  Ensure availability of non-vaccine, life-saving interventions (testing, therapeutics, oxygen) where needed most.           - Improve global testing regimes              - Increase testing and improve testing regimes, including scaling up the production and use of rapid diagnostic tests and self-testing. 
          - Improve equitable access to life-saving therapeutics              - Explore mechanisms to create an enabling environment for equitable access. 
          - Improve access to other effective non-vaccine interventions 
        - Strengthen Global Health Security Architecture –  Advance immediate and long-term reforms and governance that will impact the current pandemic response today as well as future global health security and pandemic preparedness.           - Support international and regional organizations
          - Establish new elements in the global health security architecture 

-  Discover More-  September 23, 2022  														International Public Health and Medical Supply Chain Clearinghouse																											 
-  September 23, 2022  														Chairs’ Statement on the COVID-19 Global Action Plan (GAP) Ministerial																											 
-  September 23, 2022  														USAID Announces Countries for Test-To-Treat and Oxygen Programming as Part of the United States COVID-19 Response																													 
-  June 16, 2022  														The COVID-19 Global Action Plan Senior Officials Meeting																											 
-  February 14, 2022  														Secretary Antony J. Blinken at a Virtual COVID-19 Global Action Meeting																											 
-  February 14, 2022  														The COVID-19 Global Action Meeting																											 
 

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