New Dutch global health strategy includes AMR

The Advisory Council on International Affairs recently proposed a global health strategy for the Netherlands.

“The government has announced a Dutch global health strategy in the coalition agreement. This is an important step because the alarming experiences with the COVID pandemic and global inequalities in access to health care and services demonstrate once again that the standing global health policies are inadequate. However, such a strategy will only be successful if the Netherlands aligns itself with the priorities of the World Health Organization (WHO) and is prepared to promote global health across the board.

This is stated in the advisory report “Foundations for a Dutch global health strategy” that the House of Representatives requested the Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV) to issue. The House of Representatives asked the AIV for advice on a Dutch global health strategy foundation. In this advisory report, the AIV provides the building blocks for this strategy.” (Translated from Dutch),

The advice may have significant impact on AMR-Global’s ambition and research goals. This document not only emphasizes the dire need for a global health strategy for the Netherlands, but also the need for coordinated efforts across ministries.  The document explicitly proposes antimicrobial resistance, microbiology, and virology as key focus areas of the Dutch strategy. AMR global is looking forward to the further development of the Dutch global health strategy and to contributing to its implementation through its cross-sectorial partnership on AMR with a global health perspective.

Find the full version in Dutch here.