Coalition Of Global Health Organizations Issue ‘Call To Action’ For G20 To Invest In NTDs, Drug Resistance, Disease Preparedness

Devex: ‘Call to action’ for G20 health ministers ahead of Berlin meeting
“A coalition of global health organizations came together Friday to urge G20 health ministers to do more to tackle pandemics, drug resistance, and neglected diseases, describing health as a ‘global security issue’ as it appears prominently on the G20 agenda for the first time. The coalition issued a ‘call to action’ at a conference on global health innovation in Berlin, Germany, demanding that G20 health ministers commit new long-term investment to pandemic preparedness, as well as to health technologies to combat antimicrobial resistance, and poverty-related and neglected diseases, when they meet in the German capital in May…” (Young-Powell, 5/2).

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