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Context

Health is central to the ambitions of Africans and to Europeans. As the COVID-19 pandemic made clear, no one is healthy unless everyone is healthy.

Conflict, insecurity, disease outbreaks, constrained funding for health systems, limited local manufacturing of health products, risks related to substandard and falsified products and climate change exacerbate existing healthcare inequities.

Health systems cannot function effectively without ensuring equitable access to quality health products and services, which, in turn, is a critical part of achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

Team Europe’s offer

“Team Europe” is a broad and inclusive consortium of European actors, including the European Commission, EU Member States, the European Investment Bank, the European Medicines Agency, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, development agencies, top-ranking universities, dynamic research centers and an active, independent private sector, including biotech and pharma companies.

“Team Europe Initiatives” on health bring different European actors together around a focused thematic area in partnership with African stakeholders. Thematic areas include:

• Manufacturing and access to vaccines, medicines and health technologies
• Sexual and reproductive health and rights
• Health security
• Digital health
• Public health institutes

The core of the Team Europe offer is:

• Strategic and coordinated partnerships
• Technical expertise
• Diversified funding and pooled resources
• Commitment to the right to health

The "Team Europe approach” improves coordination, alignment, and efficiency; increases synergies across geographies and actors; and provides opportunities to pool resources to increase impact.

Benefits in Africa include direct and indirect economic development, including job creation, opportunities for African entrepreneurs, educational opportunities for young people, increased stability and security, and healthier people.

Strategic and coordinated partnerships

Team Europe aligns its approach and activities with African priorities in tight collaboration with African partners at the continental, regional, national and local level.

Technical expertise

Team Europe has decades of success working on a wide range of topics relevant to Africa’s ambitions in health and security, including economic and political integration, health product manufacturing, research cooperation, the provision of primary healthcare, SRHR and more. Team Europe has long experience of institutional collaboration at the regional level with the EU and regional economic commissions.

Diversified funding and pooled resources

Team Europe offers grants, loans, investments packages, budget support and blended finance as well as instruments for de-risking that encourage private investment. Funding is provided through contributions from the EU budget, EU Member States, the European Investment Bank and European development banks through a mix of joint and bilateral projects.

Commitment to the right to health

Team Europe acknowledges health as a fundamental human right, emphasizing its importance for sustainable development and endorsing principles of gender equality, equity and human rights.