The COVID-19 outbreak is affecting everyone. This global fitness crisis requires a global, multilateral and coordinated reaction, as well as express assistance to the maximum number of countries.
As the fifth largest donor in the world*, France has mobilized significant resources of €1200 million to combat the spread of COVID-19 in most countries, most of which are in Africa. France is expanding its contributions and commitment to multilateral organizations fighting the pandemic: the UN and its specialized agencies and programs, adding the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Food Programme (WFP), as well as applicable multilateral budgets such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, or Unitaid.
France also advocates in multilateral and regional elections for a (G7, G20, European Union), in full cooperation with the African Union, to take into account the expressed wishes of Africa, in particular through less difficult access to fitness products resulting from studies on the virus. (long-term tests, remedies, and vaccines).
France was at the origin of the foreign initiative to fight the effects of COVID-19 in Africa, presented on 15 April 2020 following the call of 18 African and European heads of state and government, together with President Macron. This initiative is based on 4 pillars: aid for African fitness systems, aid for African research, humanitarian aid and financial aid.
To deal with this pandemic, France has developed a four-pronged strategy, implemented with bilateral and multilateral funding.
Increasing the capacity of states and communities to combat the epidemic is a priority. The goal is to help countries with fragile health systems and help them until remedies and vaccines are available. The main focus will be on mobilizing short-term investments to help cadres. of the World Salud. La Organization WHO plays a key role in external coordination, as well as a standard-setting role in health care. and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance), as well as associations and NGOs.
France’s goal is clinical collaboration between French and African establishments by strengthening existing partnerships and allocating more study resources to Africa. This applies to paintings made through the network paintings of the Institut Pasteur, the Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) and the French Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis (ANRS), together with universities and study organizations. Pandemic-like phenomena to inform public decision-making. On 24 April 2020, together with the UN Secretary-General and WHO, France launched the ACT Accelerator, a global initiative to boost the expansion, production and access to diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines.
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The pandemic is mainly affecting the most vulnerable populations. Access to food and number one care is a priority. Special attention is paid to women through the number one attention in the areas of sexual, reproductive, maternal and child health.
As the movement of other people and goods has been drastically reduced due to the pandemic, France is running through the ground to remote areas, with its diplomatic and cooperation network, as well as through foreign agencies, adding the World Food Programme.
The goal is to help African economies through tools deployed through foreign institutions, adding the IMF and World Bank. The assistance provided takes two forms:
French corporations operating in Africa are also in the fight against the pandemic.
France has pledged to extend its officially progressive assistance until 2022 to 0. 55 percent of its gross national income. To adapt this aid to the demanding situations and urgency of the pandemic, it has chosen to redirect part of it to projects aimed at combating the spread of COVID-19 in the maximum countries.
This is a total of €1200 million in bilateral loans and grants, most of which are earmarked for sub-Saharan Africa. In addition, other equipment is being redeployed to combat COVID-19 in Africa through the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI), the Ministry of Solidarity and Health (MSS) and the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE), in particular its Crisis and Support Centre.
Depending on their fields of activity, the projects are controlled by:
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The Institut Pasteur de Paris, a personal base with identified public interest missions, which benefits from a state grant and grant, has invested only about €3 million in the capacities of the network of studies in Africa and for joint projects. a dozen French scientists in Africa to the song of 2. 5 million euros. Together with the Mérieux Foundation, he is also involved in several movements to combat the pandemic. An exceptional investment of €4 million has been awarded through the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and AFD for the Institut Pasteur d’Afrique network to accentuate studies to validate rapid and adapted diagnostic tests at cost (including serology and staff training laboratory).
The IRD, which will receive a support of 2 million euros, CIRAD and ANRS are also contributing to this picture through joint clinical projects, in components as a component of “One Health” and through the release of committed funds. The ANRS has allocated four million euros as a component of a call for projects in collaboration with laboratories.
For its part, the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) finances food assistance programmes directly or from NGOs, in conjunction with the World Food Programme (WFP).
France strongly advocated for Africa to be a continent of precedent in the EU-funded emergency response for emerging countries. Thus, of the €15. 6 billion in emergency aid announced by the EU on 8 April 2020 to combat the pandemic, €3. 6 billion has been allocated to sub-Saharan Africa.
The EU’s reaction to the fitness crisis is financed through external aid instruments, basically the European Development Fund, largely committed to Africa, to which France contributed €5. 4 billion for the period 2014-2020, and the European Investment Bank.
An express call from the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Association (EDCTP) has won a budget of €4. 75 million, adding €1 million from France, to the progression of study capacities in Africa to cope with the crisis.
At France’s initiative, the G20 countries will act on the debt of 77 of the most vulnerable countries, adding 41 in sub-Saharan Africa. the debt from May 1 to December 31, 2020. This suspension is a main gesture through France, amounting to 1 billion euros.
This much-needed stimulus, valued at around $20 billion (€18. 4 billion), allows 40 [41] countries to invest more in the fight against COVID-19. (Jean-Yves Le Drian, Le Monde, April 20, 2020)
Beyond the moratorium, France advocates debt restructuring in the most vulnerable countries, in Africa.
We will have to help our African neighbors fight the virus more effectively and help them economically by massively cancelling their debts. (Emmanuel Macron, April 13, 2020)
France is among the largest donors of primary multilateral fitness tools, adding the Global Fund, Gavi and Unitaid. These tools have redirected their programs toward fighting COVID-19, offering $144 million, and will continue their efforts.
France is the sixth largest contributor to WHO’s budget (around €20 million depending on the year) and plays a leading role in coordinating the external response to the pandemic.
France is the fifth-largest contributor to the International Development Association (IDA), with €1. 4 billion committed for the period 2021-2023. This arm of the World Bank committed to least evolved countries is now fully mobilized under the COVID-19 Facility emergency response, with $14 billion, as well as the $160 billion medium-term economic plan.
*In 2019, France spent €11 billion on progress aid.
(Updated: May 5, 2020)
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