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Abstract

If it is understood that the international community is in search of a humanizing and inclusive globalization in which health should be given a prominent place, it is clear that the ACP Group and its 80 member states, which concentrate the largest proportion of populations with no access to health coverage, and where health policies and systems are inadequate and sometimes deficient in relation to the magnitude of needs, have decided to integrate health into their partnership with the EU.
How can we adjust the parameters of this partnership to lay the foundations for a globalization geared towards the development of human capital, and which serves to reduce the human insecurity that remains prevalent in these countries?
ACP-EU cooperation in the field of health aims to be a response to this quest, but its level of effectiveness and relevance remains to be improved. To achieve this, we need to overcome a number of shortcomings which our analysis, by lifting a corner of the veil, calls for the crystallization of a global consensus within the framework of the post-2015 development agenda.

Achille Bassilekin

Assistant Secretary-General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) in Brussels. Head of the Sustainable Economic Development and Trade Department Mr. Achille Bassilekin is Assistant Secretary-General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States at the ACP Secretariat in Brussels. Before taking up this post in 2010, he was Deputy Head of the ACP Group of States Delegation in Geneva to international organizations and the World Trade Organization (WTO) from 2001-2010. He holds a PhD in International Relations, a Masters in International Studies from the Complutense University of Madrid and a Diploma from the Diplomatic School of Madrid.

Speaker(s)

Achille Bassilekin

Under-Secretary General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States in Brussels, Head of the Sustainable Economic Development and Trade Department (ACP)