Lives in the Balance: Delivering Commitments in Humanitarian and Fragile Settings

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:

  • Reflect on continuous challenges to protecting the health and wellbeing of women, children and adolescents in the context of COVID-19 and increased instability across the world, and the policies and financial investments required to provide services;
  • Share lessons, tools, and resources that promote inclusion and more equitable access to health services for vulnerable groups;
  • Collaborate and identify ways through which countries, partners, and the global community can act in solidarity to deliver Universal Health Coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals, everywhere.

There is no time to lose.

Lives in the Balance Summit Series

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).

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