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Last week at the 67th World Health Assembly, “the World Health Organization (WHO) proposed a global goal of achieving universal health coverage (UHC) by 2030—specified by, among others, a target of at least 80 percent coverage with key health services,” MSH’s Jonathan Jay blogs. “Here’s the problem: WHO itself defines UHC as everyone receiving the good-quality services they need without financial hardship. How could just 80 percent suffice?”
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In 1998, just four years after the genocide, the new Rwandan government launched an ambitious plan to move the nation from a state ravaged by war to a middle-income country by 2020. Central to this plan was health equality—equal access and equal quality of care for all Rwandans—not a simple goal for the most developed countries, let alone one emerging from conflict. Now, Rwanda is one of the few countries on track to meet or exceed all five health-related Millennium Development Goals.
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"Although implementing medicines benefits management is a challenging task, UHC programs must strike a difficult balance between equitable access and affordable expenditure at the household and system levels," says Kwesi Eghan, MSc, MBA, BPharm, Portfolio Manager for the Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS) Program in South Sudan and the Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems (SPS) project in Afghanistan.
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Hosted by MSH and The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) during the 2013 International Conference on Family Planning, this panel discussion highlights how UHC can support family planning in the post-2015 development agenda. Moderated by Fabio Castaño (MSH), with speakers, Alison Marshall (IPPF) and Hiwot Emishaw (MSH/Health for All Campaign in Africa), November 13, 2013.
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"The World Health Organization is calling on countries to raise taxes on tobacco for World No Tobacco Day 2014," blog MSH's Jonathan Jay and Chelsey Canavan on Devex. Jay and Canavan call it a "win-win," "because, unlike most public health interventions, they don’t cost governments money—they bring it in."
"Ratcheting up taxes would save lives."
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Funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and led by University Research Co., LLC, with MSH and partners, the Tibu Homa (“treat fever” in Swahili) project is working with the Government of Tanzania to ensure that effective commodities and medicines for the diagnosis and treatment of malaria are available and health workers are trained in their use throughout the Lake Region.
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At the 67th World Health Assembly (WHA67) in Geneva, we co-convened three side events focusing on the role of UHC, chronic diseases, and governance for health in the post-2015 framework, and sent six representatives as part of the 60-plus-person Global Health Council delegation. We also released a new mobile application on health governance.
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