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. 2022 Apr 29;49(5):367–374. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2022-108165

Table 2.

Implementing the responsibility to protect

Prevent Respond Build
Advance market agreement
  • Require transparency in advance market contracts

  • Require contributions to global reserves for outbreak-relevant vaccines, drugs and diagnostics

  • Distribute emergency supplies to areas where they are urgently needed

  • Waive patent protections for outbreak-relevant vaccines, drugs and diagnostics

  • Build capacity for vaccine manufacturing globally, especially in LMICs

  • Build global reserves of outbreak-relevant supplies

Early vaccine development
  • Require early reporting of infectious disease outbreaks

  • Reinforce reporting by disbursing research funding

  • Direct funders to establish a worldwide research and development financing facility for outbreak-relevant vaccines, drugs and diagnostics

  • Build global capacity for vaccine development, especially in LMICs by funding training and research facilities

LMICs, low-income and middle-income countries.