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PD 22 - Access to Essential Medicines in LMICs

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Lack of access to medicines is a multi-dimensional challenge that stands in the way of better health everywhere. In particular, limited access to essential medicines is one of the key barriers to health...

PD 21 - Planetary Health Determines Human Health

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Climate change, biodiversity loss, and the COVID-19 pandemic share a common cause: the human disruption of our planet's natural systems. As a result of the destructive way we treat our environment, we...

PD 23 - Future Directions for Global Health Security

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Global Health Security has come back into focus in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. There are discussions under way to explore new and broader concepts of health security: clearly the approach must...

WS 15 - New Impulses from the WHO-NTD-Roadmap...

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The new WHO-NTD Roadmap 2030 proposes innovative approaches to tackle 20 infectious diseases. NTDs affect over 1 billion people worldwide, causing pain and disability, with lasting health, social and...

WS 16 - Launch and Discussion of the Report of...

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In this session the GPMB co-chairs will launch the 2021 Report of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, presenting its key findings and calls for action. In its 2019 report, "A World at Risk", the...

PD 19 - The Role of Policymakers in Digital Health...

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According to WHO estimates, half of the world’s population lacks access to essential health services. Over 100 million people each year fall into extreme poverty because they have to pay out of pocket...

D 08 - Capacity Building for Excellence in Health...

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Although much attention is given by development agencies to women reproductive health services in the global south, a comprehensive vision for capacity building in women health services is still lacking....

D 09 - The Pathfinder Initiative: Pathways to...

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Urgent and decisive action is needed to keep within the 1.5 - 2° C target of the Paris Agreement. This session will discuss the work of the Pathfinder Initiative (including The Lancet Pathfinder Commission)...

PD 20 - UHC: A Commitment to Essential Surgical,...

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Although increasingly recognized as an indivisible, indispensable part of Universal Health Coverage, limited progress has been made in recent years to advance surgical, obstetric and anesthesia care around...

WS 14 - The Power of Partnership in Global Health...

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The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and its devastating global impact has clearly demonstrated the need for robust and well-functioning health systems worldwide. SARS-CoV-2 overwhelmed health care systems globally,...

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