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WHO: just 25 Covid vaccine doses administered in low-income countries
The Guardian, Africa
Director-general warns of ‘catastrophic moral failure’ if richer countries hoard treatment
Immunizations in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
Sabere Traore
We must consider the necessity of Universal Health Coverage if we want to ensure that populations affected by Complex Humanitarian Emergencies have access to healthcare including immunization programs.
Africa Succeeded Against COVID-19’s First Wave, but the Second Wave Brings New Challenges
Bridget M. Kuehn
Africa defied many dire predictions during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic’s first wave. The continent’s success can be credited to a rapid, coordinated response among African leaders, experience with infectious diseases, an aggressive campaign to combat misinformation, and community engagement in the response.
Majority of Africans would take a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine
Africa CDC
A survey conducted by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), in partnership with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) has shown that a predominant majority (79% average) of respondents in Africa would take a COVID-19 vaccine if it were deemed safe and effective.
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in UHC
Grace Bagdon, UHC Series
When developing healthcare systems equipped for the future, it is essential that we consider the persistent and emerging health trends that are present in the global population. Autoimmune disease incidence rates, while still uncommon, have been on the rise for the past several decades...
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Living Goods Joins One by One: Target COVID-19 Campaign in Support of Community Health Workers across Africa
Living Goods and The Access Challenge have signed a formal Memorandum of Understanding to innovatively support community health workers (CHWs) in the fight against COVID-19 through the One by One: Target COVID-19 Campaign.
Africa CDC, African Union, and the Rockefeller Foundation Join Forces With the One by One Campaign On Influencer Behavior Change Campaigns Across Africa
The One by One: Target 2030 Campaign
The One by One: Target Covid-19 Campaign announces a new partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation to support Africa CDC’s Covid-19 Response Strategy using strategic communication and behaviour change campaigns across the continent.
How Gavi, UNICEF and WHO supported Timor-Leste’s successful COVID-19 response strategy
GAVI, The Vaccines Alliance
Early action by the Government of Timor-Leste and development partners enabled the numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases to stand at 29.
UHC Means No Hunger
The Access Challenge and the Harvard Global Health Institute
On October 16, 2020, the One by One: Target 2030 campaign honored World Food Day, marking the 75th Anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Digital Solutions for Maternal Health in the Era of COVID-19
Brielle Dojer
While health systems around the world fight the pandemic, we must also remain focused on mothers, and cannot allow the pandemic to undo recent gains made in maternal health - digital tools are revealing themselves as our best weapon in this fight.
Urbanization Is an Opportunity to Advance UHC in African Cities
Alex Levine
Harnessing aspects of urban design to prevent illness and promote population health has the potential to ease health system burdens and thereby facilitate universal health coverage.
Community Health and UHC: Progress One-year after the HLM-UHC
Communities at the Heart of UHC
In the one year since the Political Declaration, the global health landscape drastically changed with COVID-19. Despite these obstacles, many countries have been able to move forward with their commitments and have made substantial progress in strengthening community health for UHC.
UHC is Clean Air for All
The One by One: Target 2030 Campaign
The first ever International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies underscores the environmental link to human health
Africa Leads the Way: Working Across the SDGs for Health Equity
Stefanie Friedhoff, Harvard Global Health Institute, & Théa Klement, The Access Challenge
African leaders have already begun the innovative work of addressing access to water, clean air, and food, often more than one at once, to build person-centered, equitable health systems.
International Cooperation: The Principal COVID Casualty?
David S. Evangelista and Kate Campana
How COVID-19 has exposed the fragility of international cooperation.
Global First Ladies Alliance Joins One by One: Target 2030: Combatting COVID-19 and Championing the needs of Women and Children
The Access Challenge
GFLA joins the One by One Target 2030 Campaign in support of its One by One: Target COVID-19 campaign to ensure that steps to combat COVID-19 include equitable access to services for the most vulnerable, and that these actions contribute towards a vision for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Africa.
Breastfeeding Saves Lives
The Access Challenge
Breastfeeding as a meaningful component of Universal Health Coverage for maternal and child health
Covid-19 is accelerating multilateralism in Africa
Landry Signé and Mary Treacy, Washington Post
The African Union helped spearhead a coordinated response to the pandemic.
African Union needs more country support to launch the African Medicines Agency
Sara Jerving, DevEx
The African Union is setting up a continent wide regulatory agency tasked with ensuring access to good quality medicine and health technologies. It's just waiting on a legal commitment from 13 countries.
Primary Health and Universal Basic Education Cuts During Covid-19: what are the global impacts and consequences on Nigeria?
Toyin Saraki, Founder-President of The Wellbeing Foundation Africa
Primary health care must cover the breadth of the journey from hospital to hut in communities, and improve the social determinants of all those living and working therein.
Africa: In the fight against COVID-19, an unsung continent
Solomon Zewdu, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Africa’s low number of COVID-19 cases offers lessons for the rest of the world on disease preparedness and response.
Press Release: African Leaders Chart a Path to Achieving UHC in the Time of Covid-19
The Access Challenge
Turning the COVID-19 crisis into an opportunity for building better health systems.
Press Release: Launch of One by One: Target COVID-19 Campaign to support Africa
The Access Challenge
Get the Facts. Mobilize Resources. Support African Leaders. Join Us.
Press Release: AU and Africa CDC launch Partnership to Accelerate COVID-19 Testing: Trace, Test and Track
The African Union and The Africa CDC
Testing, tracing, and tracking to stop the spread of COVID-19 across Africa.
African private sector mobilizes COVID-19 response
Aubrey Hruby
In times when neighbors are competing with each other for medical supplies, the private sector is creating partners out of competitors. Across the continent, coalitions are coming together to support public health responses and fight the virus: a private sector response that is even more important in resource-constrained African countries.
Open Letter: We continue to fight for #HealthForAll
Kate Campana, CEO of The Access Challenge
In the face of COVID-19, the fight for Universal Health Coverage is more important than ever.
COVID-19 Teaches Us About the Need for a Unified Approach to Health
David S. Evangelista, Special Olympics Europe Eurasia
Could World Health Day 2020 mark a milestone in global health history? Perhaps, but not in the way that one might immediately imagine.
Dedicated to the Ones Teaching Us All what Universal, Fully Inclusive, Health Access Looks Like
David S. Evangelista, Special Olympics Europe Eurasia
For as long as health records have been recorded in the modern era, individuals with intellectual disabilities have faced the lowest rates of health literacy, access and care. Special Olympics and The Access Challenge are working together to change this.
Pathfinder-Nature Conservancy Partnership: Promoting Health Through Healthy Environments
By Cheryl Margoluis, Cara Honzak, Laurel Lundstrom at Pathfinder International, and Thea Klement at The Access Challenge
Challenges facing human health and the environment are complex and closely intertwined. It takes innovative, multi-sectoral partnerships that focus on health promotion through healthy environments to turn the tide...
UHC Day Newsletter: Advocacy and Campaign 2019 Updates
The Access Challenge
This monthly newsletter covers the most recent updates and upcoming plans for One by One, and highlights important contributions to #UHC Development across Africa.
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