12 Amendments of Robert ROCHEFORT related to 2014/2204(INI)
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. Whereas the countries worst hit by the current outbreak of Ebola in West Africa were countries with particularly under resourced, under staffed and vulnerable health systems.
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. Whereas the impact of the Ebola crisis exceeds its mortality rates affecting the prosperity of their whole economies. In 2015 alone according to the World Bank, the impact on GDP of the three most affected countries will be 2 billion dollars, as a direct consequence of the crisis.
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Recital H b (new)
Recital H b (new)
Hb. Whereas the impact of the death rates in affected countries are further worsened by struggling health systems which are unable to provide basic services like immunisation, childcare and maternal health services.
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Requires the Member States and the Commission to coordinate and strengthen medical research and the production of efficient medicines and vaccines against Ebola, and to advance the necessary clinical trials for existing candidate treatments; with other public and private stakeholders including WHO, against Ebola and other emerging diseases that are otherwise neglected by the commercial sector.
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Welcomes the European Commission's mobilisation of €24.4 million in 2014 and €114 million in 2015 from Horizon 2020 to fund research projects that combat Ebola through the development of vaccines, rapid diagnostics tests, and clinical trials to test existing and new Ebola compound treatments.
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Salutes that in January 2015 the first trial of a potential drug to treat Ebola started at a Medecins Sans Frontieres centre in Liberia. Vaccines trials, which would normally take decades, are now being fast-tracked in Ebola-affected countries on a timescale of weeks and months.
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Recognises the suspicion that the first human to contract Ebola became infected directly or indirectly through contact with a wild animal carrying the virus, most likely an infected bat. Urges Members States to follow FAO’s recommendations of enforcing strict legal restrictions on the trade, hunting and capture of bush meat, which poses a threat to human health and biodiversity.
Amendment 139 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Welcomes the conclusions of the 10- 11 December 2014 ‘High level meeting on building resilient systems for health in Ebola-affected countries’, in which the governments of the affected countries reiterated their commitment to lead the work on building resilient health systems through national plans that will be used as the basis on which all international actors and partners can define roles and responsibilities.
Amendment 140 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Stresses the importance of the EU avoiding a ‘one size fits all approach’ when providing crisis assistance in developing countries, in particular paying attention to sub-national health systems by increasing the qualified health workforce, improving capacities for surveillance and increasing the predictability of supplies and coordinated supply chains.
Amendment 160 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Requires all actors involved in the response to take a much more flexible approach and allocate resources according to the most pressing needs at any given time and place, taking into account the long term objective to eradicate Ebola and prevent future outbreaks.
Amendment 164 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Requests the Commission, once this outbreak is under control, to come forward with a report drawing on the lessons from the West African Ebola outbreak, highlighting potential areas of improvement in future EU’s response to similar health crises.
Amendment 165 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Urges all actors involved in the crisis to consider the opportunities that new technologies have to offer in delivering improved speed of response