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France is investing more and more in global health

France, one of the main contributors to the fight against HIV and tuberculosis in the world, will present its global health strategy for 2023-2027 in Lyon on Thursday, which advocates the “one health” approach, namely interdependence between human health, animal health and ecosystem health.

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France is investing more and more in global health

France, one of the main contributors to the fight against HIV and tuberculosis in the world, will present its global health strategy for 2023-2027 in Lyon on Thursday, which advocates the “one health” approach, namely interdependence between human health, animal health and ecosystem health.

With a contribution of 2 billion euros for 2023-2025 to multilateral funds (fight against HIV, malaria and tuberculosis, Unitaid, Gavi) compared to 1.5 billion in 2020-2022 (33.3%), the country ranks first among European investors, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. For certain funds, it even climbs to 2nd place in the world behind the United States. And that's without taking into account "bilateral action, notably via French development aid", we explain.

The head of diplomacy Catherine Colonna, the Minister of Health Aurélien Rousseau and the Minister of Research Sylvie Retailleau, whose teams worked for a year on the development of this new roadmap, will together present the new French strategy, in the presence of the Director General of the World Health Organization, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

While the Covid pandemic has shown the gap in access to vaccination between rich and poor countries, France intends to continue its mobilization to strengthen equitable access to health services for the most vulnerable States. Among the five priorities retained by the ministries, the strengthening of health systems to achieve universal health coverage in a post-Covid context, the sustainability of commitments to fight against communicable diseases or even better collective preparation for health and climate emergencies. “We are facing new challenges and our one health approach must make the link between human health, animal health and ecosystem health,” a diplomatic source explained to journalists. She notably cited the example of undernutrition which cannot be uncorrelated with climate change.

The presentation of the strategy will take place in Lyon, where a WHO academy is due to open in the fall of 2024 and which will be the future reference training center for health professionals from around the world. It will notably be equipped with a “large simulation platform”, a world first, to train healthcare professionals on site.

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