🧪 This timely event builds on the newly released gap assessment report, co-authored by Brown, IPPS, and FIND, which highlights persistent barriers in the diagnostics ecosystem and outlines key opportunities for progress.

🧪 This timely event builds on the newly released gap assessment report, co-authored by Brown, IPPS, and FIND, which highlights persistent barriers in the diagnostics ecosystem and outlines key opportunities for progress.

💡 But the solutions are clear & achievable.

The report sets out a practical set of actions that funders, regulators, developers, procurement agencies, governments & global health partners can take to improve diagnostic readiness.

Read the report: ippsecretariat.org/publication/...

#100DaysMission

5️⃣ Improving coordination in regulatory legislation to enhance the capacity for MCM development.

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#G20SouthAfrica #Solidarity #Equality #Sustainability

3️⃣ Promotion of policies that embed equitable access principles within publicly funded R&D agreements.

4️⃣ Recognition of the role of public-private partnerships for MCM development, particularly for therapeutics, such as efforts to establish a Therapeutics Development Coalition.

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1️⃣ Consolidated pandemic preparedness tracking mechanisms at national, regional and global levels, such as the 100 Days Mission Scorecard.

2️⃣ Better coordinated funding to fill the gaps in R&D for diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines.

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This includes through investing in R&D ecosystems in all regions, to increase access to medical countermeasures (MCMs) and boost economic growth.

IPPS look forward to continuing to provide technical support to G20 members, and we encourage collective commitment to:

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These are critical pillars of the #100DaysMission.

We look forward to continuing to work alongside Dr Darko, as a valued member of the 100DM Science and Technology Expert Group, and the new Agency to further our shared goals for pandemic preparedness.

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