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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...
The Health-Energy-Water-Agriculture Nexus: A Solution for
Improving African livelihoods?
By Dr. Patrick Musinguzi, Makarere University, Uganda
In Africa, the increasing complexity to satisfy health and livelihood needs of human beings requires innovative approaches that are interlinked for the better leveraging of resources. The Health-Energy-Water-Agriculture Nexus (HEWAN) is one realistic concept that has increasingly proved appropriate for livelihood improvement and sustainable growth.
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.
Unleashing the Power of Communities to Build Resilient Health Systems
Mary-Ann Etiebet, Lead and Executive Director, Merck for Mothers
When a new mother dies from a preventable cause, it is a sign that the health system failed. It is also a sign that society failed...
Ugandan youth leader scoops global health award
Lillian Namusoke Magezi, New Vision, Uganda
Mwesigye, 28, is the founder and team leader of the Uganda Youth and Adolescent Health Forum, a youth-led organization that seeks to advance quality health and well-being of adolescents and young people and promote gender equality at the community, national and global level.
Devex: Kenya counts on celebrity influence to combat NCDs
Sara Jerving, Devex's East Africa Correspondent
The private sector has perfected the use of celebrities to change consumer behavior ... The global health community is just catching up.
Connecting the Dots between Climate Change, Health,
and Education in Africa
Alice Ruhweza, Africa Lead for the World Wide Fund
We know what happens when this siloed thinking remains: opportunities are missed and efforts are duplicated.
UHC Briefing and Communications Guide for African Member States
The Access Challenge, the Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete Foundation, the African Union
This brief attempts to support distinguished Head of States and Governments as they prepare for the upcoming United Nations High Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage on September 23, 2019.
Uganda Youth Summit 2019 Produced the first Youth Report on UHC
Uganda Youth and Adolescents Health Forum
Uganda Youth Health and partners hosted a flagship summit to give young people the opportunity to share their experiences and views on UHC.
Young women and adolescent girls on the "sidewalk" of Rwanda's"road" to Universal Health Coverage
Chantal Umuhoza, New Times, Rwanda
Chantal Umuhoza's shares her thoughts on universal health coverage in Rwanda ahead of the UN High level meeting in September.
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