G7 action on debt, tax and access to technologies can enable health security for all and show the world that multilateralism works The poly-opportunity G 7 leaders gather at a moment when the world is not only off track in meeting agreed goals, but off kilter, with rising tensions risking a loss of confidence
in multilateralism itself. The reinvigoration of multilateralism is vital for overcoming the challenges ahead: as the Covid-19 and AIDS pandemics have shown us, human security depends on how well we cooperate. G7 chair Italy has emphasised the need to “build a model of cooperation” with the countries of the Global South in which “strategic investments tie our futures together” in ways that are “mutually beneficial”. The G7, working in coordination with the G20 and the
United Nations, can realise this vision through supporting courageous reforms in the international architecture. First, it needs to deal effectively with debt restructuring. As key creditors, influential global leaders and members of the G20, G7 members play essential roles in freeing up the very excessive debt repayments of low- and middle-income countries.
By Winnie Byanyima, executive director, UNAIDS and under-secretary- general, United Nations
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G7 ITALY: THE APULIA SUMMIT — 2024
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