![]() ![]() ![]() "Peru will continue to support the strengthening of multilateralism and the WHO, and will constructively support efforts to strengthen global, regional and national capacities for preparedness and response to health emergencies and future pandemics," Chuquihuara said. He noted that pollution is considered by the United Nations as one of the three planetary crises affecting humanity, disproportionately impacting developing countries and countries vulnerable to natural disasters. The Peruvian Ambassador also said that his country has submitted to the 76th World Health Assembly, together with a group of countries, a draft resolution on the impact of chemicals, pollution and waste on human health. "Peru is convinced that the new international treaty - to face future pandemics - should have as its main pillar the principle of equity, which will guarantee universal access to medical tools such as vaccines without discrimination or privileges," he stressed. "Other diseases such as dengue fever and natural phenomena such as the coastal El Niño, which recently affected the north of Peru, continue to test and affect numerous health facilities in our country," he said.Ĭhuquihuara considered essential to strengthen the international health architecture, particularly to prevent future pandemics. "We will not achieve these objectives without a reform of the global health architecture." In addition, she considered that for the new instrument on pandemics to be successful, "we must create a stronger health diplomacy, based on the principles of equality and solidarity." Peru: Countries still facing the devastating consequences of the pandemicĪmbassador Luis Chuquihuara, Permanent Representative of Peru to the United Nations in Geneva, said that, although COVID-19 ceased to be a public health emergency of international concern a few days ago, "countries are still facing the devastating consequences of the pandemic on their health systems." ![]() "We must decentralize the production of medicines, vaccines and other strategic inputs to ensure equitable access to everyone," she said, and called for work to "reduce inequities, including inequality in access to the benefits of scientific and technological knowledge."įor Minister Trindade, strengthened multilateralism will be important. The Brazilian Health Minister considered that the world needs to "strengthen surveillance and health systems in general," as well as "redouble efforts in innovation, technology transfer and financing" to advance towards more equitable health systems. "Brazil is back: we are resuming our agenda in defense of health equality, a culture of peace and multilateralism," she stressed before the World Health Assembly in Geneva. Trindade urged countries to learn from the lessons of the pandemic that "left six million dead in the world, 700,000 of which were in Brazil, with a great impact on the health system, mental health, the economy and the social fabric in general." Brazil: National health systems better prepared for emergencies to comeīrazil's Minister of Health, Nísia Trindade, stressed the need to have "national health systems that are better prepared for the emergencies to come.”ĭr. The Minister of Health also shared the country's progress in regulatory frameworks against non-communicable diseases, including a bill sent to Congress to ratify the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and efforts to control tuberculosis and antimicrobial resistance. "We have the opportunity and the unavoidable responsibility to sustain health as the central axis of the political agenda – this requires even more multilateral and regional integration, more cooperation, more development, but above all, more solidarity and more empathy," she stressed. Minister Vizzotti acknowledged the work done to strengthen surveillance and genomic sequencing and said that Argentina was invited to join the leadership committee for the international pathogen surveillance network launched on Saturday during the Assembly. "If the pandemic left us with anything, it is the lesson that opportunities are created from the deepest crises," she stressed, adding that regional capacities to produce critical inputs were strengthened, including in Argentina, which was selected by WHO as one of the centers for the production of mRNA vaccines. ![]()
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