Health Minister Joe Phaahla, the African Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Africa Health Business and the SA Chapter of the BRICS Business Council co-hosted a dialogue on Monday.
Inequalities continue to threaten pandemic preparedness for global health security. They committed to collaborate on pandemic prevention and preparedness.
Health Minister Joe Phaahla, the African Centre for Disease Control and Prevention , Africa Health Business and the South African Chapter of the BRICS Business Council co-hosted a dialogue on Monday. They highlighted the reality of the shifting centres of global power, pointing out that the expanded BRICS family now represented 4.8 billion people, which was over half of the worldwide population.
The stakeholders agreed that more work was needed to diversify manufacturing and to support Africa's manufacturing targets, along with ensuring that primary healthcare was fully developed.
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