The Pandemic Fund wants to be the “main fund” for strengthening pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response and called against duplication and fragmentation as countries push for creating another fund in pandemic treaty negotiations.
Creating a new fund with the same purpose would only duplicate what it was established for and is already doing, said Priya Basu, head of the fund’s secretariat.
“If there is a new fund, there will be duplication, because it will be yet another fund that's designed to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness, response capacity,” Basu told Devex.
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Jenny Lei Ravelo@JennyLeiRavelo
Jenny Lei Ravelo is a Devex Senior Reporter based in Manila. She covers global health, with a particular focus on the World Health Organization, and other development and humanitarian aid trends in Asia Pacific. Prior to Devex, she wrote for ABS-CBN, one of the largest broadcasting networks in the Philippines, and was a copy editor for various international scientific journals. She received her journalism degree from the University of Santo Tomas.
