United States Joins in Dedication to Strengthen Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response – United States Division of State

Final week on the United Nations, the US joined with different nations in pledging to enhance Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response.  Recognizing the necessity to do extra to arrange for future well being threats, the US reaffirmed its longstanding dedication to this endeavor.

Communities world wide have efficiently made it out of the acute part of the COVID-19 pandemic because of the coordination of a world coalition of nations, the African Union, the European Union, the World Well being Group, and civil society and personal sector companions.  The US, bilaterally and in partnership with the COVID-19 Vaccines World Entry initiative (COVAX), and others, have supported this effort by donating over 688 million secure and efficient vaccines to 117 nations and economies world wide.  The U.S. joined with companions world wide to ship vaccines, assessments, therapies, and provides and to spend money on regional manufacturing capability and native capability to detect and cease illness.

This constructed on our longstanding dedication to strengthen world well being safety – proven maybe most powerfully by way of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Reduction, which has helped save greater than 25 million lives from HIV/AIDS, and our investments in world well being safety capability constructing and pandemic preparedness and response.  Over the previous few many years, PEPFAR has helped arrange well being infrastructure – like surveillance techniques, laboratories, provide chains and healthcare staff – that has been instrumental for combatting not solely HIV/AIDS, but in addition Ebola, the avian flu, and COVID-19.  Additional, the US partnered with nations to launch the World Well being Safety Agenda nearly 10 years in the past to reinforce our partnerships, creating measurable, sustainable capability to forestall, detect, and reply to epidemic and pandemic threats.

The US is dedicated to doing its half to arrange for, and reply to, the subsequent well being emergency in 4 key methods:

1. Increasing bilateral well being safety partnerships with nations world wide, to collaborate on methods to enhance illness detection capabilities, strengthen laboratory techniques, practice well being staff, improve One Well being, and enhance biosafety and biosecurity.
2. Working with the personal sector to help an improved medical countermeasure ecosystem, so nations world wide can extra equitably safe entry to vaccines, assessments, therapies, and different provides once they most want them.  The US – alongside our companions from improvement finance establishments and regional and world well being organizations – has introduced a set of modern financing options aimed toward serving to nations to higher entry these important countermeasures throughout future well being emergencies.
3. Boosting multilateral efforts just like the Pandemic Fund, which the US has supported with $450 million and plans to contribute one other $250 million, topic to Congressional notification.
4. Strengthening the worldwide well being structure by working with companions to modernize present organizations, just like the World Well being Group, and dealing to amend Worldwide Well being Rules and efficiently negotiate the Pandemic Accord, so the world is best prepared to reply to the subsequent well being safety menace in a extra fast, coordinated, clear, and equitable method.

The Excessive Degree Assembly on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response – the primary of its form on the United Nations Basic Meeting – demonstrated the collective dedication to this important situation in order that we are able to forge a safer, safer future.