France, WHO reinforce health systems to combat COVID-19

The Government of France and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have announced a new

€50 million contribution agreement that will help countries’ health systems overcome bottlenecks in the COVID-19 response and speed up equitable access to testing, treatments and vaccines. The agreement aims to support the work of WHO and co-convener’s work in the Health Systems and Response Connector (HSRC) of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A), aligned with the WHO’s COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan (SPRP). The HSRC works to ensure that countries have the technical, operational and financial resources to acquire and efficiently use vaccines and other COVID-19 tools. France’s contribution will help accelerate equitable access to all COVID-19 tools, by looking at each country’s health system’s bottlenecks and identify the right responses and solutions to them.