COVID-19 struck only a few months after world leaders reconfirmed their commitment to universal health coverage (UHC) with the endorsement of the landmark Political Declaration on UHC - ensuring that everyone can access the health services they require, when and where they need them, without suffering financial hardship as a result.
The pandemic is testing our resolve to deliver on the promise of making health for all a reality and threatens to undo decades of progress. It has disrupted delivery of essential health services in many countries, stretched resources to the limits, and
revealed the impact of decades of underinvestment in essential public health functions.
A series of pulse surveys reveal slow-downs and setbacks in delivering key health services and reaching globally agreed targets. Initiatives to boost immunization, sexual and reproductive health, maternal and child health, care for the ageing, and to
end diseases have all been negatively impacted.
This year’s UHC Day theme reminds us of our most urgent priority:
HEALTH FOR ALL: PROTECT EVERYONE.
To end this crisis and build a safer and healthier future, we must invest in health systems that protect us all—now.
Stay tuned!
The WHO UHC Day virtual event will stream live on this page.
Overview
This virtual event will highlight major progress in countries, the challenges remaining, and how the initiatives and capacities developed by WHO and its partners as part of the UHC movement provide key support for effective health system functioning in
the COVID-19 pandemic context.
WHO’s new Primary Health Care (PHC) Special Programme and the new WHO UHC Compendium of Health Interventions will be launched at the event.
The webinar will be streamed in the six official UN languages at [CONFIRM]