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.