New Delhi. Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Friday that the G20 needs to help increase the availability of funds for the World Health Organization (WHO). In addition to supporting ongoing multi-stakeholder mechanisms such as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), Act-A, as well as special emphasis on equitable and affordable access Attention is needed. He said this while addressing the G20 Joint Finance and Health Ministers meeting through video conference.
According to a statement issued by the Ministry of Health, the agenda of the discussion was concrete proposals to strengthen the global health financing regime. The minister said in his address that the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of international health regulations and the need to strengthen the global health system. He said, supporting the current proposal of the Joint Health and Funding Task Force, India proposes that WHO’s centrality in the health sector needs to be maintained.
Mandaviya said that these multilateral initiatives among the member countries also need to be embodied at the national level according to their local context.
That said, the G20 needs to help increase the funding available to the WHO, primarily funds that are not earmarked, in addition to supporting ongoing multi-stakeholder mechanisms such as GAVI, CEPI, Act-A At the same time, there is a need to pay special attention to equitable and affordable access. He said, in this pandemic, no one is safe until everyone is safe. In this context, I quote my Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he said that everyone’s support, everyone’s development, everyone’s trust and everyone’s efforts are the key to success.
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