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Three years after COVID-19, too many countries still lack reliable oxygen systems strong enough to reliably serve patients today—or withstand the surge in demand during the next respiratory pandemic.

On June 3, join PATH and Every Breath Counts for an important discussion on co-financing national medical oxygen systems and the pathways available to governments seeking sustainable investment.

The conversation will feature insights from leading global health financing organizations, including:
• The Global Fund
• The Global Financing Facility (GFF)
• The Pandemic Fund
• World Bank Group

We’ll also hear how AfricInvest’s Transform Health Fund is helping strengthen the oxygen ecosystem across Africa.

During the webinar, PATH will launch a new series of briefs to help governments and partners navigate oxygen financing opportunities through major global funding mechanisms and multilateral development banks.

📅 June 3
⏰ 11:00 AM–12:30 PM EST

Global Oxygen Alliance, Unitaid, World Health Organization (WHO), Africa CDC, Pan American Health Organization.

🔗Register here: https://bit.ly/4f0EqbZ

Imagine protecting children against multiple diseases with fewer shots and simpler vaccination visits. That’s the promise of combination vaccines.

Combination vaccines can help make immunization programs easier for families, health workers, and health systems, while also creating opportunities to introduce new vaccines more efficiently. But until now, decision-makers have lacked clear tools to fully measure the economic value and potential impact of combination vaccines.

In a new article, PATH’s Allison Clifford explores how a new tool developed with the World Health Organization (WHO) can support more informed combination vaccine decision-making.

Learn more about the checklist tool: 🔗 https://bit.ly/4nJDQBM

What if AI could help bring lifesaving products and vaccines to people faster? 🔬 💻

PATH is proud to be an early user of Google’s Hypothesis Generation tool, built with Co-Scientist—an AI-powered brainstorming partner designed to explore promising new scientific methods and ideas more quickly using existing scientific literature and data.

PATH researchers have been using the tool to identify immune biomarkers that could potentially serve as “correlates of protection” (CoPs) for rotavirus to help accelerate vaccine development. CoPs can eliminate the need for lengthy and expensive clinical trials by more quickly and reliably determining whether new candidates will be effective.

As a next step, we’re carefully reviewing these rotavirus CoP hypotheses and selecting one or more to validate in the lab—pairing frontier AI tools with PATH’s decades of scientific expertise.

Learn about PATH’s work using AI to accelerate vaccine development: https://bit.ly/3PkrF1w

More on Google’s Hypothesis Generation tool: https://bit.ly/4tTbLt8

In , movement is helping communities reconnect after COVID-19 isolation.

Through PATH’s Community Sport and Health Cooperation Initiative with the Olympics, local municipalities in Lima are creating inclusive spaces where residents of all ages and abilities can stay active, build relationships, and support their well-being.

The initiative is part of the IOC’s Olympism365 strategy and is being implemented across Ghana, Tanzania, Vietnam, Nepal, and Peru to help embed physical activity into schools, communities, and health systems and make movement more accessible to all.

The results are already showing impact. Across these five countries, the proportion of adults meeting the World Health Organization (WHO) physical activity guidelines rose from 25% to 63%. For Milagros, a young woman with Down syndrome, the prolonged isolation reversed years of social progress. Milagros now joins dance and physical activity sessions supported by her local municipal disability services office. As her mother shares: “My daughter was completely lost because of COVID-19, but thanks to this program, she is moving forward again.”

These stories remind us that community-based physical activity is about more than exercise. It strengthens mental and physical health, restores dignity, and helps ensure no one is left behind.

Watch the video to see how movement is helping communities reconnect.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4dGFPlL

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