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2 International Cooperative Action on Pandemics
2 International Cooperative Action on Pandemics
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(Tappero) • Financial obstacles affect the ability to pay health workers, establish treatment centers, and fund vaccine research.
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Proper management of the outbreak also required changing traditional burial practices, and training health workers on how to use protective equipment and how to follow asymptomatic cases after their release from isolation. All of this was complicated when the recent outbreak started in December 2013 because transmission was happening in remote parts of the Guinea border country, from which the virus eventually spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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Tappero thought one of the main financial lessons from this outbreak was that there should be an emergency payment system in place for frontline health workers, and that danger pay should be designed to reward the bravery of health workers while minimizing competition in the labor market. Better financial planning could also avoid concerns about the costs of medical evacuation, thereby reducing barriers to involving foreign volunteers.
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Woo emphasized that there are many stakeholders who carry pandemic risk on their books already, and the Global Health Risk Framework initiative would ideally help engage them to take financial measures to mitigate that risk. He saw room in this endeavor for public–private partnerships and gave an example of such a partnership from his work on veterinary surveillance in Singapore.
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Betru referred to a Brookings Institution paper that quantified the consequences of this inefficiency and estimated that about 28 cents is wasted for every development dollar spent because of delays in reaching its target. These delays oblige businesses to do something called receivables financing, involving credit from commercial banks to meet payroll and other expenses.
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explained that donor mandates, which come from governments or the United Nations or whoever is organizing the donation, can prevent organizations from using their funds and systems during emergencies. It could be helpful to negotiate the terms of a blanket mandate that would allow organizations like the Global Fund to use their capacity and their programs in countries for emergency response.
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INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIVE ACTION ON PANDEMICS 11 to Ebola response through MSF, WHO, and the Red Cross. Perhaps there are inefficiencies in that system, but he saw some inefficiency as preferable to having the Global Fund or the United Nations Children's Fund deviate from their missions.
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