Coalition of Advocates for Global Health and Pandemic Preparedness
For months, we have watched as Member States have tried to negotiate a UN Political Declaration on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response (PPPR) ahead of the UN High Level Meeting in September.
With groups of Member States at odds on equity issues, these negotiations have gone severely off track.
This is the time to deliver a Political Declaration that is ambitious, timely, and in pursuit of a level of equity that has yet to be achieved in global health. As Directors of civil society and community organizations working globally on health, the HIV response, and pandemic preparedness, we see and experience first-hand the risk of failing to deliver, particularly for marginalized, criminalized, and under-resourced communities.
We are founding members of the Coalition of Advocates for Global Health and Pandemic Preparedness and have engaged with the multiple initiatives that have arisen in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, including ACT-A, the Pandemic Fund launch, the Pandemic Accord, the UN High Level Meeting on PPPR, and the development of a medical countermeasures platform.
Our aim is to ensure increased and meaningful involvement of civil society and communities in the development and decision-making of these initiatives and to advocate for an integrated and holistic approach to pandemic preparedness that emphasizes equity, diversity, inclusion, global solidarity, and synergies of multiple existing global health programs. With the final draft of the PPPR Political Declaration now circulated to Member States, we have four key asks of Member States in adopting and implementing these commitments.