European Parliament 2019-2024

Committee on Development

PE691.132v01-00

25.3.2021

AMENDMENTS 1 - 49

Draft motion for a resolution Tomas Tobé (PE689.829v01-00)

Accelerating progress and tackling inequalities towards ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030

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PE691.132v01-00 2/26 AM\1227700EN.docx EN Amendment 1 Udo Bullmann, Mónica Silvana González, Carlos Zorrinho, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Evin Incir, Maria Noichl, Patrizia Toia, Marc Tarabella

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— having regard to Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals, adopted in New York in September 2015,

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Amendment 2 Udo Bullmann, Mónica Silvana González, Carlos Zorrinho, Pierfrancesco Majorino

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— having regard to Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals, adopted in New York in September 2015,

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Amendment 3 Beata Kempa, Ryszard Czarnecki on behalf of the ECR Group

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— having regard to the EU Gender deleted Action Plan III 2021-2025,

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— having regard to the Council Conclusions of 26 May 2015 on Gender in Development,

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Amendment 5 György Hölvényi

Draft motion for a resolution Citation 9 b (new)

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— having regard to the Beijing Platform for Action and the Programme of Action of the ICPD and the outcomes of their review conferences,

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Amendment 6 Antoni Comín i Oliveres

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B a. whereas the universal access to antiretroviral HIV treatment and care significantly reduced the risk of further transmission and has provided people living with HIV an almost normal life expectancy and comparable quality of life;

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PE691.132v01-00 4/26 AM\1227700EN.docx EN Amendment 7 Antoni Comín i Oliveres

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B b. whereas several middle-income developing countries have difficulties to import or locally produce generic versions of antiretroviral medicines due to patent protection; whereas multinational pharmaceutical companies are increasingly excluding middle-income developing countries from donations, decreased prices and voluntary licenses, thus hampering their ability to access affordable generic medicines;

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Amendment 8 Beata Kempa, Ryszard Czarnecki on behalf of the ECR Group

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C. whereas inequalities that drive the C. whereas inequalities that drive the HIV epidemic including violation of HIV epidemic including violation of human rights and sexual and reproductive human rights, stigma and discrimination, health and rights, stigma and have been deteriorating and have been discrimination, have been deteriorating and further exacerbated by COVID-19; have been further exacerbated by COVID- 19;

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Amendment 9 György Hölvényi

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C. whereas inequalities that drive the C. whereas inequalities that drive the HIV epidemic including violation of HIV epidemic including violation of human rights and sexual and reproductive human rights and sexual and reproductive health and rights, stigma and health and rights, in the context of the discrimination, have been deteriorating and Beijing Platform for Action and the have been further exacerbated by COVID- Programme of Action of the ICPD and 19; the outcomes of their review conferences, stigma and discrimination, have been deteriorating and have been further exacerbated by COVID-19;

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Amendment 10 György Hölvényi

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D. whereas men who have sex with D. whereas men who have sex with men, transgender people, people who men, people who inject drugs, sex workers inject drugs, sex workers and their clients, and their clients, and prisoners (key and prisoners (key populations) are at populations) are at higher risk of exposure higher risk of exposure to HIV than other to HIV than other groups, and whose groups, and whose engagement is critical engagement is critical in the HIV response; in the HIV response;

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Amendment 11 Beata Kempa, Ryszard Czarnecki on behalf of the ECR Group

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F. whereas gender inequality, unequal F. whereas inequality between men

PE691.132v01-00 6/26 AM\1227700EN.docx EN access to education, and sexual and gender- and women, unequal access to education, based violence increase HIV vulnerability and sexual and gender-based violence of women and girls, with AIDS-related increase HIV vulnerability of women and illnesses being among the leading causes of girls, with AIDS-related illnesses being death among women of reproductive age among the leading causes of death among globally; women of reproductive age globally;

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Amendment 12 Barry Andrews

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F. whereas gender inequality, unequal F. whereas gender inequality, unequal access to education, and sexual and gender- access to education and to sexual and based violence increase HIV vulnerability reproductive health services and of women and girls, with AIDS-related information, and sexual and gender-based illnesses being among the leading causes of violence increase HIV vulnerability of death among women of reproductive age women and girls, with AIDS-related globally; illnesses being among the leading causes of death among women of reproductive age globally;

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Amendment 13 György Hölvényi

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F a. whereas young people between the ages of 15 and 27 years account for more than one third of all new infections among adults and AIDS-related deaths are increasing among adolescents, and whereas young people have limited access to social protection as well as to sexual and reproductive health care and programmes empowering them to protect

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Amendment 14 Antoni Comín i Oliveres

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F a. whereas compulsory comprehensive sexual education in the school system is essential to prevent the spread of AIDS and other sexually- transmitted infections;

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Amendment 15 Barry Andrews

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H. whereas sub-Saharan Africa H. whereas sub-Saharan Africa remains the most heavily affected region, remains the most heavily affected region, accounting for 57% of all new HIV accounting for 57% of all new HIV infections and 84% of the HIV infections infections and 84% of the HIV infections in children (0-14), with 4,500 girls and in children (0-14), with much higher HIV young women (age 15 to 24) becoming prevalence in females than in males, and infected with HIV every week, and with with 4,500 girls and young women (age 15 25.6 million people living with HIV; to 24) becoming infected with HIV every week, and with 25.6 million people living with HIV;

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Amendment 16 Barry Andrews

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J a. whereas existing prevention methods have not done enough to stop the spread of HIV, particularly among women, who bear a disproportionate burden of the epidemic, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa; and whereas there is a need for investments in research and innovation for new and improved tools to prevent, diagnose, and treat HIV & AIDS, including gender-sensitive tools, and new treatment options to address the emergence of HIV drug resistance;

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Amendment 17 Michèle Rivasi, Caroline Roose, Erik Marquardt, Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Draft motion for a resolution Recital J a (new)

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J a. whereas the Human Right to Health takes precedence over TRIPS rule; recalls the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health affirms the right of developing countries to use to the full the flexibility provisions in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights to protect public health and, in particular, provide access to medicines for all;

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Amendment 18 Charles Goerens

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L a. whereas the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which was created following the global surge of HIV/AIDS, has had an significant role in the context of the fight against HIV/AIDS;

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Amendment 19 Beata Kempa, Ryszard Czarnecki on behalf of the ECR Group

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3 a. Underlines that the global AIDS response requires a multi-sectoral approach and multi-level cooperation that demonstrate timeliness, scale, inclusiveness, partnership and innovation;

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Amendment 20 Barry Andrews

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4. Calls on the European Commission 4. Calls on the European Commission to ensure that the programming of the to ensure that the programming of the NDICI is supportive of partner country NDICI is supportive of partner country efforts to build strong and resilient health efforts to build strong and resilient health systems and community systems for health, systems, including health research and able to deliver HIV-sensitive universal regulatory systems and community health coverage; systems for health, able to deliver HIV-

PE691.132v01-00 10/26 AM\1227700EN.docx EN sensitive universal health coverage;

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Amendment 21 Beata Kempa, Ryszard Czarnecki on behalf of the ECR Group

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5. Requests the European External 5. Requests the European External Action Service, the European Commission Action Service, the European Commission and Member States to use the and Member States to use the implementation of the EU Human Rights implementation of the EU Human Rights Action Plan and the Gender Action Plan Action Plan to address the human rights III to address the human rights and gender and inequality between men and women inequality drivers of HIV/AIDS by drivers of HIV/AIDS by prioritising the prioritising the fight against stigma and fight against stigma and discrimination, discrimination, sexual and gender based sexual and gender based violence, violence, criminalisation of same-sex criminalisation of same-sex relations and relations and other punitive and other punitive and discriminatory laws and discriminatory laws and policies to policies to contribute to universal, contribute to universal access to sexual equitable and affordable access to and reproductive health and rights, access healthcare and quality education and the to quality education, including participation of affected communities in all comprehensive sexuality education, spheres of public life; equitable and affordable access to healthcare, and the participation of affected communities in all spheres of public life;

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Amendment 22 György Hölvényi

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5. Requests the European External 5. Requests the European External Action Service, the European Commission Action Service, the European Commission and Member States to use the and Member States to use the

AM\1227700EN.docx 11/26 PE691.132v01-00 EN implementation of the EU Human Rights implementation of the EU Human Rights Action Plan and the Gender Action Plan III Action Plan and the Gender Action Plan III to address the human rights and gender to address the human rights and gender inequality drivers of HIV/AIDS by inequality drivers of HIV/AIDS by prioritising the fight against stigma and prioritising the fight against stigma and discrimination, sexual and gender based discrimination, sexual and gender based violence, criminalisation of same-sex violence, criminalisation of same-sex relations and other punitive and relations and other punitive and discriminatory laws and policies to discriminatory laws and policies to contribute to universal access to sexual and contribute to universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, access to reproductive health and rights in the quality education, including context of the Beijing Platform for Action comprehensive sexuality education, and the Programme of Action of the equitable and affordable access to ICPD and the outcomes of their review healthcare, and the participation of affected conferences, access to quality education, communities in all spheres of public life; including age appropriate comprehensive sexuality education, equitable and affordable access to healthcare, and the participation of affected communities in all spheres of public life;

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Amendment 23 Antoni Comín i Oliveres

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5. Requests the European External 5. Requests the European External Action Service, the European Commission Action Service, the European Commission and Member States to use the and Member States to use the implementation of the EU Human Rights implementation of the EU Human Rights Action Plan and the Gender Action Plan III Action Plan and the Gender Action Plan III to address the human rights and gender to address the human rights and gender inequality drivers of HIV/AIDS by inequality drivers of HIV/AIDS by prioritising the fight against stigma and prioritising the fight against stigma and discrimination, sexual and gender based discrimination, sexual and gender based violence, criminalisation of same-sex violence, criminalisation of same-sex relations and other punitive and relations and other punitive and discriminatory laws and policies to discriminatory laws and policies to contribute to universal access to sexual and contribute to universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, access to reproductive health and rights, access to quality education, including quality education, including comprehensive sexuality education, comprehensive sexuality education, equitable and affordable access to equitable and affordable access to

PE691.132v01-00 12/26 AM\1227700EN.docx EN healthcare, and the participation of affected healthcare, access to the labour market communities in all spheres of public life; and the participation of affected communities in all spheres of public life;

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Amendment 24 Antoni Comín i Oliveres

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5 a. Calls on the European Commission and Member States to work with partner countries to instate compulsory comprehensive sexual education in their national education plans in order to prevent the spread of AIDS and other sexually-transmitted diseases, especially in those countries with highest infection rates;

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Amendment 25 Michèle Rivasi, Caroline Roose, Erik Marquardt, Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

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6. Requests the European Commission 6. Recalls that health is a to prioritise health as part of the EU-Africa prerequisite for human development, strategy and to promote investments in requests the European Commission to integrated HIV and sexual and prioritise health as part of the EU-Africa reproductive health and rights, with a focus strategy, which implies mobilizing on women and girls and other vulnerable additional public funds to guarantee groups; Universal Health Coverage including SRHR, HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, as well as focusing on global health research and development, stepping up EU-Africa health research and innovation

AM\1227700EN.docx 13/26 PE691.132v01-00 EN collaboration, and jointly boosting African and European production capacity for health products, equipment, and medicines; underlines that development aid should primary be dedicated to deliver - “horizontal” - universal health care system coverage through a holistic and rights-based approach, which entails i.a. to fully address the multidimensional nature of health (with close links to gender, food security and nutrition, water and sanitation, education and poverty), along the line of “One Health” approach; in particular, calls for the promotion of investments in integrated HIV and sexual and reproductive health and rights, with a focus on women and girls and other vulnerable groups;

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Amendment 26 Beata Kempa, Ryszard Czarnecki on behalf of the ECR Group

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6. Requests the European Commission 6. Requests the European Commission to prioritise health as part of the EU-Africa to prioritise health as part of the EU-Africa strategy and to promote investments in strategy and to promote investments in integrated HIV and sexual and integrated HIV health and rights, with a reproductive health and rights, with a focus focus on women and girls and other on women and girls and other vulnerable vulnerable groups; groups;

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Amendment 27 György Hölvényi

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6. Requests the European Commission 6. Requests the European Commission to prioritise health as part of the EU-Africa to prioritise health as part of the EU-Africa strategy and to promote investments in strategy and to promote investments in integrated HIV and sexual and integrated HIV and sexual and reproductive health and rights, with a reproductive health care, with a focus on focus on women and girls and other women and girls and other vulnerable vulnerable groups; groups;

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Amendment 28 Barry Andrews

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6. Requests the European Commission 6. Requests the European Commission to prioritise health as part of the EU-Africa and Member States to prioritise health as strategy and to promote investments in part of the EU-Africa strategy with the integrated HIV and sexual and goal of achieving universal health reproductive health and rights, with a focus coverage and strengthening health on women and girls and other vulnerable systems, and to promote investments in groups; integrated HIV and sexual and reproductive health and rights, with a focus on women and girls in all their diversity and other marginalised, underserved and vulnerable groups;

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Amendment 29 Antoni Comín i Oliveres

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6. Requests the European Commission 6. Requests the European Commission to prioritise health as part of the EU-Africa to prioritise health as part of the EU-Africa strategy and to promote investments in strategy and to promote investments in

AM\1227700EN.docx 15/26 PE691.132v01-00 EN integrated HIV and sexual and integrated HIV and sexual and reproductive health and rights, with a focus reproductive health and rights, with a focus on women and girls and other vulnerable on women, and girls, sex workers, groups; transgender people, people who inject drugs, people in prison and other vulnerable groups;

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Amendment 30 György Hölvényi

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6 a. Calls on the Commission to address the deplorably low treatment coverage for children living with HIV as well to ensure access to HIV services to pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers to avoid mother-to-child transmission of HIV;

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Amendment 31 Charles Goerens

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8 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to play a strong political role in dialogue with its partner developing countries, including neighbourhood countries, ensuring that plans for sustainable transitions to domestic funding are in place so that HIV programmes are effective, sustained and scaled up after the withdrawal of international donors’ support; calls on the Commission and the Council to continue

PE691.132v01-00 16/26 AM\1227700EN.docx EN to work closely with those countries in ensuring that they take responsibility for and ownership of HIV response;

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Amendment 32 Miguel Urbán Crespo on behalf of the The Left Group

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8 a. Recalls the importance of ensuring universal access to treatments and medicines in the event of epidemics such as HIV and pandemics; calls therefore the EU to support the India and South Africa WTO initiative for a temporary waiver on Intellectual Property Rights for COVID- 19 vaccines and treatments and urges the pharmaceutical companies to share their knowledge and data through the World Health Organisation COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP);

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Amendment 33 Udo Bullmann, Mónica Silvana González, Carlos Zorrinho, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Evin Incir, Maria Noichl, Patrizia Toia, Marc Tarabella

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8 a. Calls on the EU to set up a clear and coherent EU Global vaccination strategy on COVID-19, focusing on ensuring equal, affordable and timely access to people in the developing countries, in particular to vulnerable and high-risk groups including people

AM\1227700EN.docx 17/26 PE691.132v01-00 EN infected with HIV/AIDS;

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Amendment 34 Udo Bullmann, Mónica Silvana González, Carlos Zorrinho, Pierfrancesco Majorino

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8 b. Calls on the EU to set up a clear and coherent EU Global vaccination strategy on COVID-19, focusing on ensuring equal, affordable and timely access to people in the developing countries, in particular to vulnerable and high-risk groups including people infected with HIV/AIDS;

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Amendment 35 Barry Andrews

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9. Calls on the European Commission 9. Calls on the European Commission and Member States to ensure that the and Member States to ensure that the global response to COVID-19 includes global response to COVID-19 includes lessons learned from the fight against HIV: lessons learned from the fight against HIV: protect human rights and address stigma protect human rights and address stigma and discrimination, particularly among key and discrimination, particularly among key and other vulnerable populations; fight and other vulnerable populations; fight gender barriers to health; engage gender barriers to health; support communities in the response and allocate healthcare practitioners and researchers, fairly limited resources and new tools so no especially in low-resource settings, engage one is left behind; communities in the response and allocate fairly limited resources and new tools so no one is left behind;

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PE691.132v01-00 18/26 AM\1227700EN.docx EN Amendment 36 Beata Kempa, Ryszard Czarnecki on behalf of the ECR Group

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9. Calls on the European Commission 9. Calls on the European Commission and Member States to ensure that the and Member States to ensure that the global response to COVID-19 includes global response to COVID-19 includes lessons learned from the fight against HIV: lessons learned from the fight against HIV: protect human rights and address stigma protect human rights and address stigma and discrimination, particularly among key and discrimination, particularly among key and other vulnerable populations; fight and other vulnerable populations; fight gender barriers to health; engage barriers to health; engage communities in communities in the response and allocate the response and allocate fairly limited fairly limited resources and new tools so no resources and new tools so no one is left one is left behind; behind;

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Amendment 37 Udo Bullmann, Mónica Silvana González, Carlos Zorrinho, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Evin Incir, Maria Noichl, Patrizia Toia, Marc Tarabella

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9 a. Urges the EU needs to set up a comprehensive global strategy and roadmap for the achievement of the SDGs, including those on health and targets on HIV/AIDS reduction, in particular taking into account the impact of COVID-19 as achieving the SDGs is therefore critical to our preparedness for future pandemics and other shocks including on health systems; calls for an effective long-term EU global health strategy; insists that the EU Commission needs to double its efforts and intensify its work towards effective global health

AM\1227700EN.docx 19/26 PE691.132v01-00 EN programmes targeting healthcare systems in developing countries;

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Amendment 38 Udo Bullmann, Mónica Silvana González, Carlos Zorrinho, Pierfrancesco Majorino

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9 b. Urges the EU needs to set up a comprehensive global strategy and roadmap for the achievement of the SDGs, including those on health and targets on HIV/AIDS reduction, in particular taking into account the impact of COVID-19 as achieving the SDGs is therefore critical to our preparedness for future pandemics and other shocks including on health systems; calls for an effective long-term EU global health strategy; insists that the EU Commission needs to double its efforts and intensify its work towards effective global health programmes targeting healthcare systems in developing countries;

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Amendment 39 Miguel Urbán Crespo on behalf of the The Left Group

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9 a. Calls on the EU to meet its commitments to the Doha Declaration and to review pharmaceutical-related TRIPS-plus provisions in current FTAs affecting public health and access to

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Amendment 40 Barry Andrews

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10. Calls on the European Commission 10. Calls on the European Commission to work with Member States and partners to work with Member States and partners to support services responsive to the needs to support services responsive to the needs of key populations and other priority of key populations and other priority populations facing unique challenges in populations facing unique challenges in accessing HIV services; accessing HIV services, including by providing youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services for young people;

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Amendment 41 Antoni Comín i Oliveres

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10 a. Calls on the European Commission to work with Member States and partners to facilitate and advocate increased commitment for the provision of HIV treatment in all conflict zones and the elimination of HIV-related discrimination against refugees, especially regarding equal access to

AM\1227700EN.docx 21/26 PE691.132v01-00 EN antiretroviral treatment and health services in host countries;

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Amendment 42 György Hölvényi

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12. Calls on the European Commission 12. Calls on the European Commission to work with Member States and partners to work with Member States and partners to support and invest in community to support and invest in community engagement and community-led responses engagement and community-led responses as key components in an effective as key components in an effective HIV/AIDS response; HIV/AIDS response, as well as to integrate HIV prevention and care with other local health care services offers as an entry point for HIV information, education, communication and training;

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Amendment 43 Antoni Comín i Oliveres

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12. Calls on the European Commission 12. Calls on the European Commission to work with Member States and partners to work with Member States and partners to support and invest in community to support and invest in community engagement and community-led responses engagement and community-led responses as key components in an effective as key components in an effective HIV/AIDS response; HIV/AIDS response and in the fight against HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination;

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PE691.132v01-00 22/26 AM\1227700EN.docx EN Amendment 44 Barry Andrews

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13. Calls on the European Commission 13. Calls on the European Commission and Member States to promote investments and Member States to promote investments in real time data collection and a robust in real time data collection and a robust pipeline of affordable diagnostic, pipeline of affordable and accessible, therapeutic and vaccine candidates for HIV gender-sensitive diagnostic, therapeutic and other infectious diseases; strengthen and vaccine candidates for HIV and other regional and interregional exchange and poverty-related and neglected infectious cooperation in science, research and diseases; strengthen regional and innovation, advancing the use of trade- interregional capacities and cooperation in related aspects of intellectual property science, research and innovation, rights flexibilities, and optimise the use of advancing the use of trade-related aspects voluntary licensing and technology sharing of intellectual property rights flexibilities, mechanisms to meet public health and optimise the use of voluntary licensing objectives; and technology sharing mechanisms to meet public health objectives;

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Amendment 45 Michèle Rivasi, Caroline Roose, Erik Marquardt, Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

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13. Calls on the European Commission 13. Calls on the European Commission and Member States to promote investments and Member States to promote investments in real time data collection and a robust in real time data collection and a robust pipeline of affordable diagnostic, pipeline of affordable diagnostic, therapeutic and vaccine candidates for HIV therapeutic and vaccine candidates for HIV and other infectious diseases; strengthen and other infectious diseases; strengthen regional and interregional exchange and regional and interregional exchange and cooperation in science, research and cooperation in science, research and innovation, advancing the use of trade- innovation, in particular, urges the EU to related aspects of intellectual property support developing countries, in rights flexibilities, and optimise the use of particular LDCs, in the effective voluntary licensing and technology sharing implementation of flexibilities for the mechanisms to meet public health protection of public health provided for in

AM\1227700EN.docx 23/26 PE691.132v01-00 EN objectives; TRIPs agreements, notably compulsory licencing and parallel import, and optimise the use of voluntary licensing and technology sharing mechanisms to meet public health objectives; more broadly, encourages to “de-link” the financing of R&D from the price of medicines, e.g. through the use of patent pools, open source research, grants, subsidies, etc., so as to ensure sustained accessibility, affordability, availability and access to treatment for all those in need;

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Amendment 46 Antoni Comín i Oliveres

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13. Calls on the European Commission 13. Calls on the European Commission and Member States to promote investments and Member States to promote investments in real time data collection and a robust in real time data collection and a robust pipeline of affordable diagnostic, pipeline of affordable diagnostic, therapeutic and vaccine candidates for HIV therapeutic and vaccine candidates for HIV and other infectious diseases; strengthen and other infectious diseases; strengthen regional and interregional exchange and regional and interregional exchange and cooperation in science, research and cooperation in science, research and innovation, advancing the use of trade- innovation, advancing the use of trade- related aspects of intellectual property related aspects of intellectual property rights flexibilities, and optimise the use of rights flexibilities, and optimise the use of voluntary licensing and technology sharing voluntary licensing and technology sharing mechanisms to meet public health mechanisms to meet public health objectives; objectives by insisting multinational pharmaceutical companies to include middle-income developing countries in such mechanisms and to ensure affordable HIV treatment in these countries;

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Amendment 47

PE691.132v01-00 24/26 AM\1227700EN.docx EN Antoni Comín i Oliveres

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13 a. Urges the EU and its Member States to actively support local governments in developing countries in the effective implementation of compulsory licensing pursuant to Article 31 of the TRIPS in order to protect public health and secure universal access to essential medicines for HIV treatment;

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Amendment 48 Antoni Comín i Oliveres

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13 b. Calls on the European Commission to oppose the inclusion of TRIPS-plus measures in free trade agreements with middle-income developing countries in order to ensure that all HIV anti-retroviral treatments are affordable, with full respect for the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health;

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Amendment 49 Charles Goerens

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14 a. Insists on the essential provision of

AM\1227700EN.docx 25/26 PE691.132v01-00 EN sufficient means for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in order to enable its decisive contributions to the fight against HIV/AIDS.

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