Global Gateway news: Health

At the Global Gateway High-Level Event on Education, Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen signed with Didi Esther Walson-Jack, Permanent Secretary of Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Education, a cooperation agreement on €18 million EU support to enhance research and development capacities.

Today the European Commission, Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, African Union Development Agency-NEPAD and European Medicines Agency came together to fortify their support to the African Medicines Agency.

Three health Team Europe Initiatives (TEIs) were launched today during the high-level event on the European Union (EU) – African Union (AU) partnership on Global Health for equitable access, in Brussels. The TEIs will strengthen health security, support Public Health Institutes in Africa, and boost

Marking the inauguration today of the first BioNTech Africa manufacturing site in Kigali, Rwanda, the European Union has increased its Global Gateway investments in the country under the Team Europe Initiative on manufacturing and access to vaccines, medicines and health technologies in Africa.

Today, at the Global Gateway Forum in Brussels, the EU signed an additional €500 million for global health reinforcing the financing partnership recently launched between the European Commission, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a further €134 million.

At the Global Gateway Forum, the European Union and Mexico took a significant step toward a more sustainable and prosperous joint future, presenting a major package of projects under Global Gateway for Mexico.

European Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jutta Urpilainen, and Director of Health Systems and Services of the Pan American Health Organisation, Dr James Fitzgerald signed a €3,8 million agreement building a partnership to strengthen Latin American and Caribbean access to healthcare.

A €10 million loan from the European Investment Bank, guaranteed by the EU, will provide for further improvements and increased capacity in the island’s acute medical care, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Bridgetown.

Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen and Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton host today the EU – Latin America and the Caribbean high-level forum “Sharing pharmaceutical innovations” under the Global Gateway partnership between the two regions.