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Our Mission
Accord for a Healthier World is aiming to help close the health equity gap for 1.2 billion people living in 45 lower-income countries around the world.
Through the Accord, Pfizer is offering the full portfolio of medicines and vaccines for which it holds global rights on a not-for-profit basis.
This includes hundreds of prevention and treatment options – around 40% of which are on the World Health Organization’s list of essential medicines – for many of the most significant infectious and non-communicable diseases impacting these countries. The commitment includes both current and future products.
Oncology
Hematology
Gastroenterology
Neurology
Infectious Diseases & Vaccinology
Dermatology
Cardiovascular & Metabolic Disease
Urology
Psychiatry
Pulmonology
Endocrinology
Immunology
Electrolytes
Surgical Procedures & Pain Management
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Rheumatology
Providing medicines and vaccines is just one step.
To support long-term, sustainable access and maximize impact, we are working together with governments, the global health community and others who share our vision to understand and address barriers that limit or prevent access to medicines and vaccines.
Backed by extensive experience and expertise, the Accord is working to provide support in 3 key areas:
Health Workforce Learning & Development
A strong healthcare work force is essential to achieving national healthcare goals.
We’re collaborating with national health authorities to better understand their priorities and areas of unmet medical needs, and then working with experts to develop in-person and virtual disease-specific education to expand knowledge in key specialty areas.
We’re also tapping into expert communities nationally and globally to create peer-to-peer platforms providing greater access to best practices and experience sharing.
Supply Chain Enhancement
The transport, storage, and distribution of medicine and vaccines is vital to the ability of public health systems reaching every patient.
The Accord is working with countries to better understand their needs and challenges across the supply chain and can provide support and best practices to help make systems more resilient. Leveraging decades of Pfizer experience in logistics, we can also provide best-practices to Accord-eligible countries on key supply chain components.
For example, in Rwanda, a team of our experts provided the country’s supply chain workforce with training on cold chain management for a board of country health engineers.
More Efficient Regulatory Paths
Medicines and vaccines can take much longer to reach low- and middle-income countries.
The Accord is collaborating with governments, national regulatory agencies (NRAs) and international agencies to explore opportunities for greater efficiency and harmonization, as permissible under local laws and regulations.
We're bringing regulatory experts together to discuss these challenges and identify potential solutions to reduce approval timelines and help get medicines to those who need them faster.
Healthy collaboration helps create a healthier world.
Our partners and our partnerships are vital to what the Accord can accomplish. Together, we can strengthen health systems and speed access to life-saving and life-changing medicines and vaccines.
“Combined with additional investments in strengthening Africa’s public health systems and pharmaceutical regulators, the Accord is an important step toward sustainable health security for countries at every income level.”
His Excellency Paul Kagame
President of Rwanda
“The great thing about this Accord is that it helps low-income countries without violating their dignity and agency as people, for it is a true partnership that involves both Pfizer and countries like Malawi sharing the burden of costs and tasks in the production and delivery of supplies that will save millions of lives.”
His Excellency Lazarus Chakwera
President of Malawi
“The world is a global village. Once we are able to collaborate, not just amongst us here, but with other healthcare professionals across the globe we are able to offer the best of care to our patients.”
Dr. Florence Dedey
General Surgeon at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Surgery at University of Ghana Medical School
“I believe that if we want success in whatever we do, collaboration is part of it, to bring people in to help, and in the end, they can achieve something good. I believe this is happening – we are able to collaborate.”
Dr. Vivian Paintsil
Pediatrician Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Ghana
The Accord is focused on 45 lower-income countries.
We aim to empower healthcare systems and improve patient outcomes in places that have historically been more vulnerable to healthcare inequalities.
- Afghanistan
- Bangladesh
- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Congo DR
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Haiti
- Kenya
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Niger
- North Korea
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Uganda
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Together, we can close the health equity gap.
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News & Milestones
How Medical Training and Knowledge-Sharing Can Help Close the Health Equity Gap
Malawi Ministry of Health, bioMérieux, and Pfizer Form Collaboration to Help Address Antimicrobial Resistance
How a Digital Solution is Helping Deliver Quality Medicines and Vaccines to Patients
‘Accord For A Healthier World’ Product Offering Expanded to Include Full Pfizer Portfolio
Bridging The Health Financing Gap In Africa
Now is the Time to Address the Global Health Equity Gap
Pfizer Launches ‘Accord For A Healthier World’ to Improve Health Equity for 1.2 Billion People