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Letter from participants of the G7 Civil Society Taskforce which met in Rome (1-2 February 2016) to members of the G7 Health Experts Working Group meeting in Tokyo (18-19 February 2016):
\nDear Members of the G7 Health Experts Working Group
\nWe need a commitment at Ise-Shima to a truly transformative agenda for health and sustainable development.
\nThe G7 has a long tradition of supporting health. The 2016 Summit under Japan\u2019s leadership, the first following the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, has the potential to be a
\ntransformative G7, starting a new commitment to Universal Health Coverage (UHC) whilst increasing momentum on existing priorities such as the Global Fund.
\nWe and the undersigned organisations support three priority areas:
\nUniversal Health Coverage for 2030 Sustainable Development
\nThe era of the MDGs has reached an end. There is finally an historic commitment under the SDG Framework\u00a0to Universal Health Coverage. As an ambitious target for health system strengthening, a G7 endorsement of\u00a0the principles of UHC will be powerful catalyst for ensuring equity and the right to health for all. Stopping the\u00a0daily scandal of unnecessary mortality and poor health, coping with infectious disease outbreaks and\u00a0reducing antimicrobial resistance all require universal health services which are accessible to all, adequately
\nfunded and staffed.<\/p>\n
We call on the G7 to:<\/p>\n
1. Endorse the principles of UHC: that everyone has the right to health without facing financial
\nhardship.
\n2. Assert that UHC must not discriminate against any social groups or leave anyone behind, bringing
\nthe poorest and marginalised into coverage urgently. Closing equity gaps is imperative to the success
\nof the SDGs.
\n3. Confirm that UHC requires a move from the injustice of out-of-pocket payments to increased
\ndomestic resources. The G7 should endorse greater fiscal space for countries to raise fair taxes and
\nincrease public spending, including through the IMF and World Bank.
\n4. Even with increased domestic resources, there is a $27 billion annual gap for the poorest countries
\nfor UHC. G7 countries should contribute 0.1% of GNI to health, as part of 0.7% to ODA and ensure
\nthat their aid is aligned to support national health plans, coordinated through the International
\nHealth Partnership+ and the Roadmap for Health System Strengthening.
\n5. Support a new Global Partnership or Alliance for UHC which can drive global momentum and ensure
\nall actors are playing their part. Governments, the UN, civil society and the private sector need to
\nrefocus, harmonise and align their policies and contributions towards UHC.
\n6. Support greater UHC accountability to ensure sufficient monitoring and commitment.
\nPrevention and Responses to Global Health Threats
\nBuilding UHC is the priority so that health systems will be far better equipped to stop outbreaks before they\u00a0become national disasters. However, countries which cannot cope with infectious disease outbreaks need\u00a0fast and effective international help. While we support better and more coordinated responses, we also
\nraise the following concerns about the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility:
\n1. Prevention is better than response. Helping countries build strong systems for UHC must not be a lower\u00a0priority than responding. Defining \u201chealth security\u201d narrowly as pandemic preparedness undermines the\u00a0importance of a health system that saves lives and protects livelihoods every single day. Health security\u00a0means ensuring no one goes bankrupt when they get sick.
\n2. Any global funding mechanism must not present private sector insurance as a magic solution. Companies
\nwill make an overall profit from insurance which can only come from public money that should be
\nfunding public services.
\n3. Qualifying for payouts will be complicated and companies will always seek to avoid payouts. There may
\nalso be a perverse incentive to declare outbreaks, impacting on fragile economies.
\n4. Countries with weaker health systems may be expected to pay higher premiums and receive lower
\npayouts; those countries most in need may benefit least from the PEF.
\n5. All multilateral institutions on global health crisis, including PEF, should ensure full involvement of civil
\nsociety in its governance, implementation and evaluation.
\n6. The reform of WHO and supporting its role in coordinating global health responses should not be
\nundermined by other actors.
\nIncreased aid for health to end ongoing global health crises<\/p>\n
G7 actions have helped to save lives and to start to turn around global health problems including major\u00a0epidemics through the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB & Malaria, child and maternal mortality through the\u00a0Muskoka Initiative, nutrition and polio. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is ambitious about
\nending health threats. To achieve this, greater investment is necessary, always supporting comprehensive
\nhealth systems.
\n1. The G7 should lead the process of the fifth replenishment of the Global Fund to ensure it is fully-funded
\nGlobal Fund, whilst making sure its new strategy (2017-2022) for resilient health systems supports UHC
\n2. G7 countries should extend their political and financial commitments to accelerate progress towards
\neradication of polio and planning of the transfer of polio assets towards health systems to contribute to
\nUHC.
\n3. Continue and increase investments in Research and Development for poverty-related and neglected
\nconditions and infectious diseases and support manufacturing of treatments, vaccines and diagnostics in
\nlow and middle-income countries.
\n4. Ensure a strong commitment for the coming Nutrition for Growth Summit in Rio: the World Health
\nAssembly nutrition targets and the SDG health targets can only be reached through increased focus and
\nnew financial commitments to nutrition.
\n5. Support the Global Strategy for Women, Children and Adolescents\u2019 Health and ensure that essential
\nSRMNCAH services at primary care level are the first priority of UHC, including Sexual & Reproductive\u00a0Health & Rights.
\n6. Recognise and reinforce the importance of the social and gender determinants of health by also\u00a0mainstreaming gender into national health strategies.
\nWe are happy to share more information on the any of the points above or discuss possible outcomes of the
\nIse-Shima Summit on health, please contact G7@stateofchange.co. In the meantime, we wish you a
\nsuccessful meeting and will work with you for a transformative G7 commitment to health.
\nSigned by the 176 organisations named below:
\n\u2022 1,000 Days
\n\u2022 Abha Light Foundation
\n\u2022 Abibiman Foundation
\n\u2022 Academics Against Poverty
\n\u2022 Action Contre la Faim (ACF)
\n\u2022 Action for Development (AfD), Suisse
\n\u2022 ACTION Global Health Advocacy Partnership
\n\u2022 action medeor – German Medical Aid Organization
\n\u2022 Action Sant\u00e9 Mondiale\/Global Health
\nAdvocates France
\n\u2022 Africa Health Budget Network (AHBN)
\n\u2022 Africa Japan Forum
\n\u2022 Africaid Zvandiri
\n\u2022 AIDOS – Italian Association for Women
\nin development
\n\u2022 ALEJO Community Support Project
\n\u2022 Alliance of Young Nurse Leaders and
\nAdvocates International, Inc. (AYNLA)
\n\u2022 Alternative Sant\u00e9 Cameroon
\n\u2022 Anesvad
\n\u2022 Association Burkinab\u00e9 pour la Survie
\nde l’Enfance (ABSE)
\n\u2022 Association d’Entraide M\u00e9dico-Sociale AEMS-ASBL
\n\u2022 Association for Improvement the Food of the Mothers
\nand children in south kivu\/AMEKI\/
\nRepublic Democratic of the Congo.
\n\u2022 Association Tunisienne de Pr\u00e9vention Positive
\n\u2022 Azad India Foundation
\n\u2022 Bethel Viva Foundation
\n\u2022 Bhakti Asih Purwakarta, Midwife Academy
\n\u2022 Bhartiya Mahila Evam Gramin Utthan Sansthan
\n\u2022 BHOJPUR MAHILA KALA KENDRA
\n\u2022 BHORE
\n\u2022 Blood Patients’Proection Council, Kerala,India
\n\u2022 Bond (UK membership body of NGOs
\nworking in international development)
\n\u2022 BRAC
\n\u2022 C-NET+ (Collaborative Network for Persons with HIV)
\n\u2022 Canadian HIV\/AIDS Legal Network
\n\u2022 CCM Comitato Collaborazione Medica
\n\u2022 Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE)
\n\u2022 CENTER FOR PUBLIC HEALTH
\n\u2022 Center for Social Group Development – CSGD
\n\u2022 Centre for Girls and Interaction (CEGI Malawi)
\n\u2022 Centre for Healthworks, Development and
\nResearch Initiative (CHEDRES )
\n\u2022 Centre for Sustainable Development and Education
\nin Africa
\n\u2022 Cherangany community Aids programme
\norganization (CCAPO CBO)
\n\u2022 CICODEV Africa
\n\u2022 CIDEP Non Governmental Organisation
\n\u2022 COMMUNITY AND FAMILY AID
\nFOUNDATION-GHANA
\n\u2022 Community Development Fund (CDF)
\n\u2022 Community Working Group on Health (CWGH)
\n\u2022 Concern Worldwide
\n\u2022 Confederation of Meningitis Organisations
\n\u2022 CSGD- Center for Social Group Development
\n\u2022 Djantoli
\n\u2022 DSW (Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevoelkerung)
\n\u2022 Eastern Africa national Networks of AIDS
\nService Organizations (EANNASO)
\n\u2022 Equilibres & Populations
\n\u2022 Espolea A.C.
\n\u2022 Evidence for Action
\n\u2022 Faculty of Public Health, Albanian Public Health Forum
\n\u2022 Fast Rural Development Program
\n\u2022 Federal Medical Center, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria
\n\u2022 Federal University of Minas Gerais
\n\u2022 Forum for Human Rights and Public Health
\n-Nepal (Friendship-Nepal)
\n\u2022 Friends of the Global Fund Europe
\n\u2022 Fundaci\u00f3n Mexicana para la Salud
\n\u2022 Fundacion para Estudio e Investigacion de la
\nMujer -FEIM-
\n\u2022 FUTURE FOR MARGINALISED COMMUNITY
\n\u2022 Future Generations International (FUGI ), Ghana.
\n\u2022 Gateway Health Institute
\n\u2022 General Trade Union of Workers of health services
\nand pharmaceutical industries
\n\u2022 GLAPD_Africa, asbl-DRC.
\n\u2022 Global Health Council
\n\u2022 Global Health International Advisors GHIA
\n\u2022 GLOBAL VOLUNTARY DEVELOPMENT
\nASSOCIATION
\n\u2022 Grameen Development Society [GDS]
\n\u2022 Grandmothers Advocacy Network
\n\u2022 Greek Pediatric Society
\n\u2022 Greek Union of General Practitioners
\n\u2022 Health Access and Integrated Development Initiative
\n\u2022 Health Reform Foundation of Nigeria
\n\u2022 Health Systems and Development Initiative
\n\u2022 Helen Keller International
\n\u2022 HORIZON YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
\n\u2022 INA (M\u0101ori, Indigenous & South Pacific)
\nHIV\/AIDS Foundation
\n\u2022 Incentives for Global Health
\n\u2022 Inis Communication
\n\u2022 INITIATIVE FOR COMMUNITY
\nDEVELOPMENT NIGERIA
\n\u2022 Insaf Doctors Forum Pakistan
\n\u2022 International Diabetes Federation
\n\u2022 International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation
\n\u2022 International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
\n\u2022 International Society for Social Pediatrics and
\nChild Health
\n\u2022 International Women’s Year Liaison Group
\n\u2022 Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association
\n\u2022 Japanese Organization for International
\nCooperation in Family Planning (JOICFP)
\n\u2022 Johanniter International Assistance
\n\u2022 John Snow, Inc. (JSI)
\n\u2022 KENYA AIDS NGOS CONSORTIUM – KANCO
\n\u2022 Kenya Association for Maternal & Neonatal
\nHealth – KAMANEH
\n\u2022 Kenya NGO Alliance Against Malaria
\n\u2022 Kidney Foundation of Bangladesh
\n\u2022 Krityanand UNESCO Club Jamshedpur, India
\n\u2022 KTRI
\n\u2022 Lean on Me Foundation – Kenya
\n\u2022 Len Deacon – LDA South Africa and LDA Namibia
\n\u2022 Malaria No More Japan
\n\u2022 Management Sciences for Health
\n\u2022 Marie Stopes International
\n\u2022 Medical Mission Institute W\u00fcrzburg
\n\u2022 Medici con l’Africa CUAMM
\n\u2022 Medicines for Malaria Venture – MMV
\n\u2022 Medicus Mundi – Spain
\n\u2022 MEERA FOUNDATION, India
\n\u2022 Michael Adedotun Oke Foundation
\n\u2022 MUB – Home Foundation
\n\u2022 Muso
\n\u2022 Nations Capacity Building Programme NCBP
\n\u2022 NCD Alliance
\n\u2022 Nigerian Health Economics Association
\n\u2022 No More Epidemics campaign
\n\u2022 NPO2050
\n\u2022 One Million Community Health Workers Campaign
\n\u2022 ONG ASDAP
\n\u2022 Open-Ended Response
\n\u2022 Operation ASHA
\n\u2022 Operation Hope Community Based Organization
\n\u2022 Osservatorio Italiano sull’Azione Globale contro l’AIDS
\n\u2022 Oxfam International
\n\u2022 Oxfam Italia
\n\u2022 Pathfinder International
\n\u2022 PILS (Prevention Information et Lutte contre le Sida)
\n\u2022 PLENITUD Foundation, Dominican Republic
\n\u2022 PO \u201cThe Association of parents of disabled-children\u201d
\n(APDC) “ARDI”
\n\u2022 POSITIVE-GENERATION\/CAMEROUN
\n\u2022 Princess of Africa Foundation
\n\u2022 RESULTS Australia
\n\u2022 RESULTS Canada
\n\u2022 Results for Development Institute
\n\u2022 RESULTS UK
\n\u2022 Right to Care: SA(Treating Health Seriously)
\n\u2022 Rotarian Action Group for Population & Development
\n(RFPD)
\n\u2022 Rozaria Memorial Trust
\n\u2022 S. SAMRAJ Christian AIDS\/HIV National Alliance
\n(CANA), India
\n\u2022 SanIgest internacional
\n\u2022 Save the Children
\n\u2022 SMILE AFRICA DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION.
\n\u2022 SOLTHIS (Therapeutic Solidarity & Initiatives for Health)
\n\u2022 SOS MATERNAL HEALTH
\n\u2022 TAW CAMEROON
\n\u2022 The Association for Rehabilitation and
\nRe-orientation of Women for Development (TERREWODE)
\n\u2022 The Children’s Project International
\n\u2022 The Global Poverty Project
\n\u2022 The Leprosy Mission International
\n\u2022 The Mother and Child Health and Education Trust
\n\u2022 THE SOCIETY for DEVELOPMENT of
\nEDUCATION & HEALTH of COASTAL
\nAREA POPULATION (UPAKUL)
\n\u2022 Treasureland Health Builders Initiative
\n\u2022 Tribhuvan University
\n\u2022 Ugoku\/Ugokasu (GCAP Japan)
\n\u2022 Union des ONG du Togo (UONGTO)
\n\u2022 Universal Versatile Societ
\n\u2022 Universidad Isalud
\n\u2022 Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal
\n\u2022 University of Leeds
\n\u2022 WAFA
\n\u2022 Wellbeing Of Humanity ( Formerly Wellbeing
\nWorld Wide)
\n\u2022 Women Deliver
\n\u2022 World Foundation for Medical Research and Prevention
\n\u2022 World Heart Federation
\n\u2022 World Vision Japan
\n\u2022 World Young Women Christian Association
\n\u2022 WOTE Youth Development Projects
\n\u2022 Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network
\n\u2022 Youth Advocates for Change -Zambia
\n\u2022 Youth Engage (Zimbabwe )
\n\u2022 Youth Initiatives For Youth Action (YIYA) Foundation
\n\u2022 YOUTH JOINT ONLINE BROADCASTING
\nKENYA (YJOB-KENYA)
\n\u2022 Youth LEAD Cambodia
\n\u2022 Zambia Asthma Association
\n\u2022 ZAMBIA HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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