28 May 2025
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Unlocking the Potential of Self-Care in the Fight against NCDs

May 28, 2025

Honourable Minister Kwabena Mintah Akandoh Remarks

The Honourable Minister Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, Minister of Health of the Republic of Ghana, made an impactful speech at the High-Level Roundtable hosted by BCIU and Global Self-Care Federation, explaining the several steps Ghana have taken to combat NCDs, including the National Health Policy, National Policy for Prevention and Control of NCDs, The School Health Policy, National Wellness Policy, The Health and Ageing Policy, The Ghana Medical Trust Fund and Free Primary Health Care Policy. The Minister also emphasised the need for affordable self-care products, strengthened regulatory frameworks, investment into health literacy and technology transfer.

Read the full remarks here.

17 Apr 2025
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Third Hearing for the NCD and Mental Health Global Legislators Initiative

April 17, 2025

The NCD and Mental Health Global Legislators Initiative is underway, and we will be hosting the Third hearing on ‘Developing, implementing, and evaluating multistakeholder evidence-based action to improve mental health’.

This hearing marks another significant step forward in our ongoing efforts to address the growing burden of mental health challenges and non-communicable diseases through collaborative, cross-sectoral policy engagement. Since its announcement at last year’s H20 Summit, we have been working closely with the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases and the Health4Life Fund to shape and strengthen this initiative. Together, we are committed to fostering meaningful legislative dialogue that drives tangible, people-centred health outcomes.

As we prepare for this important session, we encourage all participants to review the World Health Organization’s recently published report, ‘World Mental Health Report: Transforming Mental Health for All’. This publication provides a comprehensive global overview of current challenges and opportunities in the mental health space and offers a powerful evidence base to inform the discussions ahead.

World mental health report: Transforming mental health for all

08 Oct 2024
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Global Leaders Unite at UNGA to Accelerate Cervical Cancer Elimination: A Call for G7 Action on HPV Prevention

October 8, 2024

The G20&G7HDP together with the support of our partner organizations MSD and BD hosted a high-level roundtable “Accelerating the Elimination of Cervical Cancer as a Public Health Problem – Achieving Consensus on Policy Actions for the G7 Health” on the sidelines of the 79th Un General Assembly (UNGA). The roundtable served as an opportunity for leaders from G7 and G20+ countries to share best practices and align on the need to put political commitment behind the policy and technical progress being made.

The roundtable brought together representatives from G7 and G20+ countries such as Italy, the USA, Germany, Japan, Indonesia, Australia, Norway, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, together with international organizations such as WHO, European Investment Banks, and the International Atomic Energy Agency. By listening to participants’ reflections on implementing HPV-related cancer elimination plans, we identified key areas of focus and a concrete ask for G7 countries to advance HPV prevention for both women and men, starting with the elimination of cervical cancer.

We collated the key point discussed and recommendations for the G7 health ministers ahead of the Health Ministerial in October in the enclosed CTA with the request to “include a clear reference to preventing HPV-related cancers for both women and men within the 2024 G7 Ministers of Health Communique, starting with the elimination of cervical cancer in alignment with the WHO 90-70-90 strategy.”

To find out more, read the Pdf version here.

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14 Aug 2024
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Call To Action 2024

August 14, 2024

G20&G7 Health and Development Partnership (G20&G7 HDP) organized the 8th edition of the Health 20 Summit (H20), bringing together policymakers, key players in the global health policy community, and representatives from the private and public sectors to discuss pressing global health and finance issues and support the G20 and G7 convergence of agendas for a sustainable and future-proof policy-making effort.

The attendees drafted a Call to Action based on the discussion held during the two days of the summit, with the goal of fostering a wider and more integrated dialogue with key takeaways from across many sectors of society. This call to action & its recommendations on health, finance, and climate have been sent to the G20 & G7 nations to keep health as a priority at the highest levels of policymaking to ensure our common goals are met in the long-term and aligned with the UN SDG 2030 commitments.

Read the Call To Action here

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30 Jun 2024
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Highlights from the H20 Summit on Future of Health Diplomacy

June 30, 2024
19-20 June World Health Organization, Geneva: during the two-day annual Health20 (H20) Summit hosted at the WHO HQ, G20 and G7 policy-makers, politicians, International Organisations, the global health community, economists and investors came together to discuss and elevate the ongoing and future health challenges and the need for greater cohesiveness between the G20 and G7 Presidencies and International Organisations.

The H20 summit, themed “The Future of Global Health Diplomacy in a Changing World,” brought together over 200 distinguished guests from across private and public sectors, including G20 and G7 representatives. Key topics included sustainable financing for global health, the need to bridge the disconnect between investment and health communities, and introducing new global health initiatives, calling for an ‘health in all policies approach’.

Global health diplomacy plays a critical role in addressing the triple emerging threat of pandemics, antimicrobial resistance, and non-communicable diseases. Initiatives by G7 and G20, in collaboration with international organizations, are essential to foster cohesive strategies and ensure robust global health systems. Through foras such as the H20 Summit, it helps align diverse stakeholders towards common health goals, enhance funding mechanisms, and drives the implementation of comprehensive health policies worldwide.

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20 Feb 2024
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Women’s Health with Mareike Ostertag and Danielle Alakija

February 20, 2024
Mareike Ostertag, G20 & G7HDP Ambassador, met with Danielle Alakija, Olympic Athlete and Founder and CEO of the SOLI Group, to discuss a set of practical and implementable recommendations for Women’s Health for G7 and G20 Leaders drafted throughout the past year in collaboration with many members of the Partnership.

Here are the key takeaways from the conversation:

▶️  The recommendations center on four crucial areas – increasing investment in Women’s Health, generating essential data, improving access to healthcare, and boosting women-specific R&D.

▶️ Closing the gender health gap by 2040 could boost the global economy by over USD 1 trillion annually. The economic benefits of investing in Women’s Health are clear, yet gaps persist in women-specific data and funding.

▶️  Together, we call on the G20 and G7 presidencies to tackle inequalities from research to access, ensuring advances in Women’s Health contribute to empowering women and girls worldwide.

Read the full text of the CTA here

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16 Feb 2024
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New AMR Action Plan Launched by G20 & G7HDP

February 16, 2024

The G20&G7HDP launched the AMR Legislator Initiative which aims through a series of 4 hearings to identify the gaps and make progress on implementing national action plans on AMR. The initiative is run by leading parliamentarians such as Professor Agnes Buzyn, former French Health Minister, Right Hon. Dr Christopher Kalila, MP from Zambia, and Chaired by Dame Angela Eagle, MP from the UK.

A series of hearings will take place leading up to the World Health Assembly, concluding with a model resolution that parliamentarians can present in their parliaments. The outcome will be a short report written by Francis Jacobs and presented at WHA that includes a list of recommendations that bridge the democratic deficit on AMR awareness to action.

Francis Jacobs worked for the European Parliament from just before direct elections in 1979 until the end of April 2016. Much of his career was as a staff member on various European Parliament committees, including those on Economic and Monetary Affairs and Industrial Policy, on German Unification and on Constitutional Affairs. From 2000-2006 he led the staff of the EP Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, and from 2006-2016 was the head of the European Parliament’s Information Office in Ireland. Since his retirement in 2016 Francis writes about and gives lectures on the European Union in Ireland, Italy and several other countries, and has participated in many EUSA, UACES and other conferences on EU matters.

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10 Nov 2023
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The WHO needs to be strengthened at country level

November 10, 2023

An interview with Agnès Buzyn from the Tagesspiegel Background

Professor Agnès Buzyn served as the French Health Minister between 2017 to 2020. She is a physician by training specialized in cancer research. 

Professor Buzyn worked for the WHO, as the Representative for Multilateral Affairs for the office of the Director-General and Most recently has taken on the role Special Envoy of the G20&G7 Health and Development Partnership Initiative, a not for-profit organization which was founded during Germany’s G20 Presidency in 2027.

Professor Buzyn, the Paris Peace Forum is currently taking place in the French capital. What significance does such an event have for the healthcare, for pandemic prevention and for building a fair, global health architecture?

Health policy should have the same status as security and defense policy, therefore The Paris Peace Forum is exactly the right place to get this message across. A few years ago, the climate crisis and international peace cooperation were at the center stage of the discussions here, however the coronavirus pandemic has shown how important global health and equal access to healthcare services is for the world. Unfair access to healthcare services also leads to migration, for example. Solutions must therefore be found for a modern healthcare architecture.

What are the weaknesses of the current global health architecture?

The development of a global health architecture began with the founding of the WHO in 1948. However, it has always been difficult for the WHO to be active at country level. Therefore, more and more organisations came into play to fill this gap. Most of these international organisations were private /public partnerships and focused on one specific health problem such as the Gavi Vaccine Alliance or the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. This has led to a development of a complex architecture system where several international organisations and non-governmental organisations are working to help countries build their health systems, train health workers, distribute medicines and much more. The landscape is now too complex and not efficient enough. 

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22 Jun 2023
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Policymakers: Sustainable Finance Framework for Global Health Achievable by 2030

June 22, 2023

G20 & G7 Policymakers, Financiers and the Global Health Community believe a New Sustainable Finance Framework for Global Health is Achievable by 2030

 

21-22 June United Nations, Geneva: during the two-day annual Health20 (H20) Summit hosted at the UN Palais, G20 and G7 policy-makers, politicians, International Organisations, the global health community, economists and investors are coming together to discuss the future role of health within the new Geopolitical Order and the need for greater cohesiveness between the G20 and G7 Presidencies.

Day one of the summit recognised that governments in the aftermath of COVID-19 now accept the principle that spending on health is a valuable economic and social investment.

To meet future needs of highly indebted countries that cannot currently increase their spending on health and climate change, speakers will call for a sustainable finance framework for global health that eases the sovereign debt burden so that domestic resources can be repurposed, matched by multilateral institutions, with catalytic funds from the private sector.

The launch of a report during the summit will provide a roadmap and toolkit for governments, the health community and investors to help bridge the dead valley of communication between both sectors and to unlock collaboration opportunities to close existing funding gaps in health that is expected to exceed US$ 16.9 trillion by 2050.

With seven years left to catch up in delivery of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The H20 Summit will demonstrate the increasing interdependence of significant global challenges including geopolitical tensions, biodiversity loss, energy, food and water scarcity and climate change challenges.

Given that COVID-19 pandemic is no longer a global health threat, speakers will stress that health must not fade away from global and national political debates and will call on G20+ Leaders, Ministers of Health and Finance to tigger a systems rethink and move up from a reactive health finance approach to a proactive one.

Politicians from across the G20+ countries will call on a stronger alignment and future coordination with the G20 and G7 as policy-priorities set in multilateral fora have to trickle down more effectively to be implemented sustainably by national policy-makers for a new Global Health Architecture to meet the challenges that we are facing today, tomorrow, and for the next generation.

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