Norway is increasing its support to the Pandemic Fund by NOK 240 million for the period 2025-2027. This will strengthen the global, regional and national readiness and response to new pandemics and severe cross-border disease outbreaks.

‘The international community needs to invest now to ensure a safer future for all of us. The lessons learned from the Covid-19-pandemic, Mpox and Ebola are that we need to act quickly and coordinated. Norway helped establish the Pandemic Fund in 2022, and we are now increasing our support to the fund by NOK 240 million. When acting quickly we save lives and reduce the economic and social consequences of outbreaks of diseases that pandemics and outbreaks bring,’ said Minister of Development Anne Beathe Kristiansen Tvinnereim.