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Luxembourg signs WHO funding agreements worth €47.5 million
Luxembourg and WHO signed two agreements on 20 December 2024, committing €46.5 million through a strategic partnership framework and €1 million through a multiyear health ministry agreement. Funding priorities include emergency preparedness, health inequalities, universal health coverage, tropical disease research and polio eradication.
- Two agreements provide €47.5 million in support for WHO.
- Funding includes universal health coverage, tropical disease research and polio eradication.
- Priorities include emergency preparedness and reducing gender-related health inequalities.
- The framework also supports WHO guidelines, norms and standards.
Luxembourg and WHO signed two funding agreements on 20 December 2024 to support global public health priorities through 2028. The Ministry of Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs signed a €46.5 million Strategic Partnership Framework, which WHO described as its largest-ever agreement with Luxembourg. The Ministry of Health and Social Safety also launched its first multiyear agreement with WHO, worth €1 million.
The €46.5 million framework combines fully flexible and thematic funding with allocations for the Universal Health Coverage Partnership, tropical disease research and polio eradication. Flexible funding allows WHO to direct resources to areas of greatest need. Health Minister Martine Deprez identified health emergency preparedness and response, alongside reducing health inequalities with a particular focus on gender, as collaboration priorities through 2028.
The framework also supports WHO’s development and implementation of technical guidance, norms and standards used by countries. These commitments concern public health capacity and guidance rather than changes to clinical practice. The announcement provides no detailed allocation breakdown or measured health outcomes.
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