SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Salesforce, the
global leader in CRM (NYSE: CRM), and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance,
announced today that they will collaborate to help Gavi manage
critical information to equitably distribute approximately two
billion COVID-19 vaccines to 190 countries by the end of
2021.
Fair, rapid and equitable access to vaccines is critical to
ending the global pandemic. Public-private partnerships, such as
Gavi, which are focused on getting vaccines to some of the world's
poorest countries, need to be armed with data and technology to
facilitate distribution at scale. The ability to manage huge
volumes of country data is essential.
In June, Gavi and other partners launched COVAX, a global
alliance whose goal is to ensure that people in all corners of the
world get access to COVID-19 vaccines, regardless of their wealth.
COVAX will achieve this by supporting the research, development and
manufacturing of a wide range of COVID-19 vaccine candidates, and
also negotiating pricing and distribution for the 190 countries
that have joined the alliance to date.
Gavi needs a single source of truth to help them understand how
many vaccines are needed and where. Salesforce Work.com for
Vaccines, Experience Cloud and Nonprofit Cloud will power Gavi's
COVAX country engagement platform, which will help them manage
critical information. Salesforce is enabling COVAX to move quickly
to support fast access to vaccines with a single, secure portal
that all participating countries can use to communicate and share
information, such as vaccine requirements and access reports.
Lower-income countries that are eligible for support by COVAX, will
use the portal to provide information to facilitate planning of
doses to be rolled out. Higher-income, self-financing countries
participating in COVAX will use the portal to get updates about
their financial position as that changes over time.
"The scale and urgency of the COVAX mission calls for tools we
can expand quickly and use to manage what has become one of the
largest and most complex undertakings ever in global health," said
Dr. Seth Berkley, CEO of Gavi. "With
our colleagues at Salesforce, we will establish the backbone that
allows COVAX participants and partners to share essential
information and communicate with greater efficiency and
accountability. The partnership will give people worldwide,
especially in the poorest countries, access to vaccines that help
protect them from COVID-19 and stem the continuing catastrophic
social and economic disruption the pandemic has already left in its
wake."
"We're thrilled to continue our work with Gavi as they embark on
one of the largest and most rapid vaccine distribution campaigns of
our lifetime," said Rob Acker, CEO
at Salesforce.org. "Leveraging innovative technologies has always
been a shared vision of Salesforce.org and Gavi. Now, we are arming
190 countries and economies with the platform they need to
communicate critical information around COVID-19 vaccine
requirements and equitable distribution for as many as two billion
vaccines by the end of 2021."
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