Global Health Strategy: Better Care and Economic Justice
This resolution calls on the U.S. government to adopt a new global health strategy to prevent unnecessary deaths worldwide. It includes increasing investments in healthcare in poorer countries and taking action to address economic injustices that hinder access to health services. The goal is to improve the health and well-being of people globally, especially in developing nations.
Key points
Increased Global Health Funding: The U.S. is urged to dedicate $125 billion annually to global health investments to help poorer countries achieve universal health coverage.
Support for Health Systems: Investments should support local priorities, medical staff training, infrastructure, equipment, and health management systems in developing countries.
Access to Medical Technologies: Funding for research and development of new diagnostics, treatments, and vaccines, especially for neglected diseases of poverty, ensuring their availability as global public goods.
Addressing Economic Injustice: Calls for debt cancellation for poorer countries, democratization of financial institutions, combating tax avoidance, and supporting living wages to enable these countries to finance their own health services.
Rectifying Historical Harms: Highlights the need for reparations for slavery, colonialism, and disproportionate responsibility for climate change, which have negatively impacted the health and well-being of the global South.
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