19 May 2022, Thursday
14:00 – 16:30 CET
We must ACT NOW to address poor health and wellbeing in humanitarian and fragile settings affected by poverty, instability and conflicts.
Join us at this important event, the 4th in a series of Lives in the Balance e-summits, launched in 2020 by PMNCH and CORE Group, which serve as innovative and inclusive platforms for partner-led dialogue and the PMNCH Call to Action on COVID-19 campaign. To date, $32.1 Billion in commitments from countries and donor organizations has been announced to restore essential health, nutrition and social services for women, children and adolescents lost because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This event will mobilize and deliver on commitments in humanitarian and fragile settings which have been severely affected by the pandemic and continue to experience conflicts, coups, and other social and economic fallouts.
The Summit will:
There is no time to lose.
New this time is the ‘Lives in the Balance Summit Series: Delivering on Commitments to Improve Health Equity through Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration’ co-hosted by MSD for Mother and PMNCH's private sector constituency. This special event will be held on 20 May, the day after ‘Lives in the Balance: Delivering Commitments in Humanitarian and Fragile Settings’ and will focus on engaging the private health sector to help achieve the SDGs and advance Universal Health Coverage (UHC).