evidence: For his repeated and accurate warnings to us and for his impassioned leadership I want to praise my friend, Dr Tedros, and his brilliant staff and all those across the world who through the ACT Accelerator and COVAX are working for vaccine equity. [...] KA Thank you for taking my question. Dr Tedros, you touched on the topic already a little bit earlier; what are your hopes, your confidence regarding the process of the WTO negotiations on intellectual property regarding vaccines and what impact could it have on vaccination programmes such as COVAX? [...] SI Thank you for taking my question. This is Simon Ateba with Today News Africa in Washington DC. Dr Tedros just noted that Sweden is donating one million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to COVAX, after France and New Zealand and we know that the US has shared vaccine doses with India, Canada and Mexico.