The final declaration of the G20 Leaders’ Summit reiterates the central and coordinating role of World Health Organization (WHO), an agency linked to the UN, in global health architecture. The text, released this Monday (18), highlights the organization’s role with support of “adequate, predictable, transparent, flexible and sustainable financing”. Read the entire article in this article.
In May 2020, amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the then US president, Donald Trump, announced the country’s break with the WHO due to the agency’s conduct in the face of the health emergency. The measure was reversed by Joe Biden as soon as he took office as the US government.
The leaders support the WHO Investment Round as an additional measure to finance the agency’s activities, in addition to encouraging additional contributions to the Pandemic Fund, created in 2022 to prevent future pandemics from a “diverse donor base to reach the new funding goal”.
“We remain committed to building more resilient, equitable, sustainable and inclusive health systems capable of providing integrated, people-centered health services, including mental health, and achieving Universal Health Coverage by focusing on improving essential health services. health and health systems for levels above pre-pandemic levels in the next one to two years ”, states the text.
The G20 further welcomes the establishment of a Coalition for Local and Regional Production, Innovation and Equitable Access, focusing on voluntary cooperation, in order to promote access to vaccines, therapeutic and diagnostic treatments and other health technologies for neglected diseases and people in vulnerable situations .
The text reinforces the leaders’ commitment to eradicate the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and to also eradicate poliomyelitis at a global level, a disease not recorded in Brazil for 35 years, due to large-scale vaccination .
The document also emphasizes moving forward with a One Health approach, “recognizing the interconnections between human, animal, plant and environmental health, as well as the need to address antimicrobial resistance” and recognizes the potential role of traditional medicine and complementary, but reinforces the importance of being evidence-based .
This content was originally published in Target of Trump, WHO has a reinforced role in a G20 statement on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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