Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) New York (VNA) – The United NationsGeneral Assembly (UNGA) on February 24 adopted two resolutions on the organisationof the High-Level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response andthe High-Level Meeting on the Fight Against Tuberculosis, which are expected tobe held during the High-Level Week of the UNGA’s 78th session in September.
The High-Level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention,Preparedness and Response aims to draw lessons and experiences from around theworld in the fight against COVID-19, thus promoting a multidimensional approachto enhancing prevention and response to future pandemics.
Meanwhile, the High-Level Meeting on theFight Against Tuberculosis will look to mobilise political will and strengthenmeasures to promote scientific research, financing, and innovation towardquickly ending the global tuberculosis epidemic by ensuring equal accessto preventive, diagnostic, care, and treatment methods.
Chairing the drafting of the UNGA resolution on InternationalDay of Epidemic Preparedness in 2020 and proposing the resolution on organisingthe High-Level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response in2022, Vietnam has actively partnered with other major countries to lead thenegotiation process to secure the adoption of the two above-mentionedresolutions.
During thenegotiation process, Vietnam emphasised and successfully protected the importantcontents of the resolutions, such as the need to ensure coherence andcomplementarity between major health processes discussed in relevant multilateralforums, narrowing the gap in financing, the necessity of strengthening theprevention and response to future pandemics by sharing lessons and experiences from the fight against COVID-19; the importance of ensuring timely, equitable,and unimpeded access to vaccines, diagnosis, treatment as well as strengtheninghealthcare systems and resilience to achieve universal health coverage for allpeople.
In the near future, Vietnam will continue actively engaging inthe negotiation of political declarations of the above-mentioned meetings tofurther contribute to the common efforts of the international community inpandemic preparedness and response, and ending the global tuberculosis epidemicas soon as possible./.
