Monaco

Polio eradication and transition

The Principality of Monaco is a longtime partner of WHO's efforts towards polio eradication and is the number 1 per capita donor to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative with contributions totalling $US 2.2 million to date. Monaco supports polio operations worldwide, with an emphasis on Niger.

Monaco's contribution helped the African Region defeat polio, and be declared polio free in August 2020. In addition to financial contributions, Monaco chaired the Polio Partners Group (an international forum for polio partners) and sponsored key decisions on polio eradication with WHO governing bodies. Ambassador Lanteri is a Polio Gender Champion, driving the conversation on gender equity and health in the Geneva UN community.

^{H.E. Ms Carole Lanteri, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Principality of Monaco to the UNOG.}

Supporting the elimination of Malaria

Since 2005, the Principality of Monaco has collaborated with Madagascar and WHO on the pre-elimination of malaria in Madagascar. The work contributes to a wider effort to intensify the fight against this preventable disease that kills more than 400 000 people a year, mostly small children. The programme was extended in 2011 to cover southern and eastern Africa, and in 2018 added eight countries in the Sahel region–Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Chad, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal–by working closely with local communities. The Sahel Malaria Elimination Initiative was launched in Dakar in August 2018 by the ministries of health of the eight Sahel countries. Dr Awa Coll Seck, former Senegal minister of health, was appointed goodwill ambassador of this initiative.

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^{Monaco and WHO alongside the Sahel countries together, to eliminate malaria. ©Direction de la communication, Principality of Monaco}

Small Countries Initiative (global)

The Small Countries Initiative was set up in 2013 to leverage existing opportunities in small countries at regional and international levels; share best practice in implementing relevant policies, strategies and interventions; build capacity in high-priority thematic areas, such as health workforce and digital health; produce technical, practice-based evidence on ways to address different public health challenges; and identify joint health and development priorities. The initiative has since grown into a network of 11 Member States in the WHO European Region with populations of two million or less. Countries participating in the initiative are Andorra, Cyprus, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino and Slovenia.

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