A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR

Dear Colleagues and Co-conspirators,

It’s hard to believe we are already in September! It has been a busy summer for ACTION partners as we continue to ramp up advocacy ahead of major key global health moments including the Global Fund 7^th Replenishment, the launch of the World Bank FIF, the GFF replenishment, and UNGA.

Over the summer, partners coordinated with one another as well as external allies to advocate for a successful Global Fund replenishment to end preventable deadly diseases. I am proud of the many ways partners engaged including through media advocacy, meetings with MPs and policymakers, webinars, roundtables, sign-on letters, and earned media. The International AIDS Conference was a key opportunity for partners to engage allies and stakeholders. We are continuing this work full speed ahead as we are just weeks away from the September replenishment conference.

ACTION partners have been closely following the development of the new FIF housed at the World Bank and are advocating tirelessly for an improved governance model that is equitable and inclusive of civil society and low- and middle-income countries. During the G7, partners called for an end to the global food crisis and are now following up with decision makers to track N4G commitments to nutrition from last December.

In reflecting on some of my biggest takeaways from the AIDS Conference which, I remain focused on advancing global health equity and see it as a prerequisite to achieving our global health goals, including ending TB. We must look critically at our systems that perpetuate inequity and work to change them so that everyone everywhere has affordable access to health care. The fight continues.

In solidarity,
Vineeta

Vineeta Gupta, MD, JD, LL.M
Director, ACTION Secretariat

RESOURCES AND BLOGS 

• Investing in women, children, and nutrition is not optional. The world’s future depends on it by Dr. Vineeta Gupta and Dr. Philippa Whitford MP
• TBPPM Friday Forum: Why should we invest in TB now? Featuring Dr. Vineeta Gupta
• Is the World Bank’s Proposed Fund an Answer for Future Pandemics? by Dr. Vineeta Gupta
• A new pandemic fund that could do more harm than good from RESULTS Educational Fund
• CEPI published a recent article Why the COVID-19 R&D job is not finished. The article highlights the need to continue investing in COVID vaccine R&D. It talks about optimizing current vaccines, as well as developing broadly protective vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 and thus adopting broad approaches to the whole coronavirus family. 
• RESULTS UK's new report, Health Crisis: The Global Fund’s Impact on Ukraine sets out the impact of the Global Fund in Ukraine and includes recommendations for international advocacy purposes.  
• Youth Leader for Nutrition’s view on UK International Development Strategy from RESULTS UK
• WHO released a new report, “Role of the polio network in COVID-19 vaccine delivery and essential immunization: Lessons learned for successful transition,” documenting the contributions of the polio network to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. A follow-up to a first report published in 2020, the focus of this report is the work undertaken by the polio workforce to deliver COVID-19 vaccines and essential immunization recovery in the context of the pandemic. It is intended to showcase the added value and the future potential of the polio network within the context of polio transition. 
• GFF Case studies
• IDC Report: Racism in the Aid Sector from RESULTS UK.
• Community health workers are the key to expanding medical care