UNITED NATIONS, United States -- World leaders on Thursday approved a new political declaration committing to redouble efforts toward universal health coverage by 2030.
The declaration,"Universal Health Coverage : expanding our ambition for health and well-being in a post-COVID world," is hailed as a vital catalyst for the international community to take big and bold actions and mobilize the necessary political commitments and financial investments to attain the UHC target of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
It covers the full continuum of key services from health promotion to prevention, protection, treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care. Alarmingly, global progress toward UHC has been largely stagnating since 2015, before stalling in 2019. "Ultimately, universal health coverage is a choice, a political choice," said World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus."The political declaration countries approved today is a strong signal that they are making that choice. But the choice is not just made on paper. It's made in budget decisions and policy decisions.
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