Bupa has teamed up with UNICEF Australia to support its campaign that provides a full COVID-19 vaccination to health workers, teachers, social workers, and the most vulnerable.
UNICEF Australia's VaccinAid campaign is raising funds to support the delivery of two billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine to countries with limited access.
As part of the partnership, the Bupa Foundation has committed to donating $5 to UNICEF Australia for every Bupa employee across its Asia-Pacific business who is fully vaccinated by December 31, 2021.
Bupa Asia-Pacific CEO Hisham El-Ansary said the VaccinAid campaign is one of the biggest health and logistics projects in history and an important initiative to protect the most vulnerable communities and people worldwide.
“This initiative is part of the ongoing support we are providing our people to get vaccinated as soon as they are eligible,” El-Ansary said.
“More than 94% of our aged care team members across Australia have had their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, with a number of homes already at 100%. We strongly support national and international COVID-19 vaccination programs as a critical pathway to keeping communities safe, reducing the severity of infection and lightening the load on local health systems.”
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Bupa Foundation's support for the VaccinAid campaign follows its $50,000 donation to UNICEF Australia to help support frontline efforts in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in India.
“As we continue to deal with the global pandemic, it is important that we work together to help vaccinate the world and care about the community around us,” said UNICEF Australia CEO Tony Stuart.
“UNICEF is leading the most complex vaccination challenge in history, supporting a global and equitable approach to the delivery of COVID-19 vaccines. Private sector support is critical to enabling the urgent and ongoing rollout of the vaccine in low to middle-income countries, and we are so pleased to have Bupa unite to contribute to vaccine equity.”
Along with the two billion COVID-19 vaccine doses, UNICEF aims to source 5.5 million treatments and 5.6 million test kits for distribution around the world.
