Mint Explainer: What did G20 health ministers' meeting achieve?
Health Care – India 2023; WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit; India MedTech Expo 2023; and ‘Sustain, Accelerate and Innovate to End TB in South-East Asia Region’ Conference. Mint takes a look at the event and its impact on India's delivery of public healthcare going ahead.
These three priorities and their related deliverables have the potential to make global healthcare services more accessible and affordable, especially for people in vulnerable situations and those in low-and middle-income countries. Hence, health emergencies prevention preparedness and response has been a core priority in every G20 Health Working Group which puts special focus on the critical threats of One Health, Anti-microbial resistance (AMR) and climate change.
To strengthen the pharmaceutical sector, there is a need to ensure equitable access to affordable medical countermeasures that envisions the establishment of research & development (R&D) and manufacturing networks across the globe. This will further enable access to quality and affordable vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics (VTDs), especially for the most vulnerable around the world, particularly those in the Global South.
The Global Initiative for Digital Health (GIDH) aims to ensure that existing and ongoing digital health efforts can be made accessible under one umbrella seeking high level international cooperation. During the covid-19 crisis, traditional medicines had played a key role, along with scientific and evidence-based medicine, in terms of preventive, therapeutic and public health management.
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