Good to see the G-20 Health Ministers' meeting under the Indian presidency acknowledging and strongly supporting WHO's central and coordinating role throughout the document, and specifically in para 6.
G-20 health priorities seem to be a mixed bag, but climate & health, pandemic preparedness, digital health solutions & AMR are quite prominent.
TB is mentioned only in passing in para 5 & 7.
Interesting to see para 22 quoting UNGA's strong condemnation of "Russian aggression against Ukraine" and calling for its "unconditional withdrawal from the territory of Ukraine" with a footnote of Russian and Chinese dissent with India and a few others reiterating their neutral position.
I support Kul's comments on this important meeting hosted by India. On reading the report, however, I could not help but feel that it was written very much in the UN'ese language. There are so many acronyms and "slogans' which makes me wonder if the high level officials could actually remember them all or even know what they represent. In para. 13, there is a slew of adjectives which sounds a bit "sophomorish" ; and in para. 17, everybody and the kitchen sink is mentioned as being party to making health care better, again un-needed verbiage.
ReplyDeletepara.22 surprised me...why specifically isolate the Ukraine situation in this report ? The disclaimers by Russia and China say it all.