“Global Health Summit 2021” adopted “Rome Declaration”

Contents

• 1
• 2 What is the News?
• 3 About Global Health Summit 2021:
• 4 Rome Declaration:
• 5 Key Features of the Rome Declaration:

What is the News?

The Virtual Global Health Summit 2021 is being held in Rome, Italy.

About Global Health Summit 2021:

• Global Health Summit was organised by Italy in its role as president of the G20 in partnership with the European Commission.
• Purpose: The summit seeks to empower and enable stakeholders to address the challenges in the third sustainable development goal(SDG) of Health and Wellbeing for all.

Rome Declaration:

• The Rome Declaration was adopted at the Global Health Summit 2021.
• Principles: The declaration is made up of 16 mutually agreed principles. These principles aim at guiding joint action to prevent future health crises and to build a safer, fairer and more equitable and sustainable world.

Key Features of the Rome Declaration:

• Firstly, to support and enhance the existing multilateral health architecture.
• Secondly, to promote the multilateral trading system and global supply chains related to Health emergencies,
• Thirdly, to enable equitable, affordable, timely global access to high-quality, safe, effective prevention, detection and response tools.
• Fourthly, to support low and middle-income countries to build expertise and develop local and regional manufacturing capacities for tools.
• Fifthly, to facilitate data sharing, capacity building, licensing agreements among stakeholders. Further, it aims to facilitate voluntary technology and know-how transfers on mutually agreed terms.
• Sixthly, to invest in the worldwide health and care workforce
• Seventhly, to increase the effectiveness of preparedness and response measures by promoting inclusive dialogue with local communities,
• Lastly, to seek to ensure the effectiveness of financing mechanisms.

Source: WHO