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Anders Nordström calls for fewer global health agencies and a bigger role for African actors

News April 03, 2024 / By: Ann Danaiya Usher

A key lesson of the COVID pandemic is that the global health architecture needs to be modernised and decentralised, says Sweden’s former Global Health Ambassador Anders Nordström. In a far-ranging interview with Development Today, he warns against “cementing” the power of Geneva-based global health institutions. He says African actors need to play a bigger role and the time is ripe to start “merging and collapsing” agencies, starting with UNAIDS.

Anders Nordström.jpg — Anders Nordström in Guinea during the Ebola outbreak, 2014 (Photo: private)

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Interview

Anders Nordström calls for fewer global health agencies and a bigger role for African actors

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