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Nada India @72nd World Health Assembly side event: Advancing Innovation and Access

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.....Health is not simply a medical issue, but socially and culturally embedded with major economic implications. She emphasized the significant impact of gender on health – an element that had not yet featured centrally enough in GAP discussions.... Jyotsna Roy Patient  Champion, Nada India 

 


  “Health is a hugely gendered question, which we have not talked about nearly enough. I urge the GAP (Global Action Plan) and all of its accelerators to adequately account for the impact of gender on health.”Jyotsna Roy Patient  Champion, Nada India Foundation, 

 As first panelist, Ms Jyotsna Roy, spoke of understanding and overcoming bottlenecks and challenges in access from the perspective of both a patient and a practitioner. She began by recognizing that health is not simply a medical issue, but socially and culturally embedded with major economic implications. She emphasized the significant impact of gender on health – an element that had not yet featured centrally enough in GAP discussions. 
Jyotsna joined WHO’s Walk the Talk event on Sunday, May 19. 


















Jyotsna Roy Focal point- Capacity Building & Inclusion attended the 72nd World Health Assembly  in Geneva organized by the WHO on behalf of Nada India (Supported by Global Health Council) 
72nd World Health Assembly Side Event:Community and civil society engagement for the Global Action Plan on Health and Well-being for All Monday May 20, 3:30-5:15 Geneva Press Club, Geneva Switzerland 
 Jyotsna, shared the personal experiences she faces advocating for better treatments for chronic non-communicable diseases, and improved diagnostics for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).....


During the panel discussion, Our patient champions, 
Jyotsna, who works with the Nada India Foundation to combat non-communicable diseases, reinforced the need for political engagement in any plan pushing us towards achieving healthier lives for all, stating, “Whatever good plan you have and whatever good work you do, you need to have political will.”....
See more key takeaways from the side event:
  • The GAP is primarily a commitment among global health organizations with diverse roles and mandates to work better together to support countries, reduce duplication and enhance collective efficiency and impact.
  • The 12 GAP signatories are committed to community and civil society engagement across the GAP process, including its development, implementation and evaluation.
  • The Sustainable Financing Accelerator is moving partners from ad hoc to increasingly systematic collaboration in supporting countries in their financing priorities. Building on what is already happening in countries, economic cases for health investments are being developed to maximize allocative efficiencies and value for money in each context, and identify the support countries want and need from global partners.
  • The Innovation and Access Accelerator embraces a broad definition of innovation, taking a balanced approach to pushing for greater innovation and clearing the path for existing, proven tools to reach more people, faster. The Accelerator provides a platform to map current national health plans against the breadth of the SDG agenda and identify opportunities where innovation can fill gaps, and to mobilize multistakeholder partnerships around bringing innovation to scale.Read full report
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