Reducing global inequities in medical oxygen access: the Lancet Global Health Commission on medical oxygen security

Executive summary“Oxygen delayed is life denied,” COVID-19 survivor, KenyaMedical oxygen is an essential medicine that has been in clinical use for over 150 years. It is required at every level of the healthcare system for children and adults with a wide range of acute and chronic conditions, and for safe surgery and perioperative care, and must be available to all who need it. The COVID-19 pandemic shone a spotlight on the longstanding inequities in access to medical oxygen globally, and the importance of this lifesaving therapy to people of all ages and in every part of the world. It was against this backdrop that the Lancet Global Health Commission on Medical Oxygen Security was launched in 2022 – to…

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  United States Agency for International Development

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  Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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  Brain Research Foundation
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  Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
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  American Thoracic Society
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  UNICEF
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  Johns Hopkins University
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  Wellcome Trust
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  “la Caixa” Foundation
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  Children's Hospital Foundation
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  UK Research and Innovation
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  Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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  Moderna
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  National Institute for Health and Care Research
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  South African Medical Research Council
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  Cure Kids
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  University of Melbourne
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  Karolinska Institutet

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  Vetenskapsrådet
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  Uppsala Universitet
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  International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
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  Pan African Thoracic Society
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  Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
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  National Institutes of Health
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  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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  University of California, Los Angeles
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  Medical Research Council
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  National Health and Medical Research Council
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  Denton Benefit League