AHF Calls on G20 to Usher in a New Era of Global Public Health
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Friday, November 20, 2020
One thing has become perfectly clear, a new Global Public Health Convention is now a necessityone that brings nations together to fund and enforce a minimum set of evidence-based principles of public health promotion, sanitary measures, disease prevention and pandemic preparedness.
Key Points:
- One thing has become perfectly clear, a new Global Public Health Convention is now a necessityone that brings nations together to fund and enforce a minimum set of evidence-based principles of public health promotion, sanitary measures, disease prevention and pandemic preparedness.
- What AHF and many public health experts have warned about for years has now come to fruition entire societies can and will be brought to their knees by deadly infectious diseases if governments continue to put public health on the backburner, said AHF President Michael Weinstein.
- There has been enough talk, the time has come for actionthe G20 must put public health first and chart a course towards a new Global Public Health Convention that will help ensure safety and security for everyone, both rich and poor.
- We urge the G20 to recognize that a new, legally-binding Global Public Health Convention that emphasizes funding and enforcement is needed in this new decadecurrent efforts are simply not sufficient.