United Nations General Assembly
UN High-Level Meeting on #UHC at #UNGA2019, New York, USA
United Nations General Assembly
UN High-Level Meeting on #UHC at #UNGA2019, New York, USA
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Over 800 million people (almost 12% of the world’s population) spent at least 10% of their household budgets to pay for health care. Universal Health Coverage is attainable. [@WHO] #HealthForAll #UNGA2019 #UHCInAfrica
#DYK? At least half of the world’s population still do not have full coverage of essential health services. #UHC allows everyone to obtain the health services they need, when and where they need them. [WHO] #HealthForAll #UNGA2019 #UHCInAfrica
About 100 million people are still being pushed into extreme poverty (defined as living on 1.90 USD or less a day) because they have to pay for health care. #UHC means that all individuals & communities receive the health services they need without suffering financial hardship [@WHO] #HealthForAll #UNGA2019 #UHCInAfrica
Many people around the world still lack even basic access to care, innovative medicines and medical resources especially in the evolving healthcare systems of low-to middle-income countries #HealthForAll #UNGA2019 #UHCInAfrica
We are proud of progress made towards achieving #UHCInAfrica. Botswana, Cote D’Ivoire, DRC, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Zambia & Mali have already integrated #UHC in their national plans #HealthForAll #UNGA2019 #UHCInAfrica
Rwanda
Rwanda developed “Vision 2050” Strategy envisioning to raise Rwandese out of poverty & transform economy into a high income one #HealthForAll #UNGA2019 #UHCInAfrica
Doctor to Patient ratio in Rwanda reduced from 1:16,001 in 2010 to 1: 8,919 in 2018; Nurse to Patient ratio reduced from 1:1,291 in 2010 to 1:1094 in 2018 & Midwife to Patient ratio from 1:66749 in 2010 to 1:4064 in 2017 #HealthForAll #UNGA2019 #UHCInAfrica
Zambia
Zambia launched the National Health Care Package that specifies the basic & essential health care packages to be provided at different levels of health facilities #HealthForAll #UNGA2019 #UHCInAfrica
Senegal
In 2017, 625 Senegalese benefited from free dialysis, 19,809 from free caesarean section in public health structures against 3,485 in 2016 #HealthForAll #UNGA2019 #UHCInAfrica
Kenya
Thousands of Kenyans are benefiting from new National Hospital Insurance Fund’s contribution rates & expanded package, revised for the 1st time in more than 25 years to include outpatient services & coverage for selected NCDs #HealthForAll #UNGA2019 #UHCInAfrica
Ethiopia
Ethiopia has pursued an increased participation from NGOs and private sector as one of the strategies to avail health services to the people #HealthForAll #UNGA2019 #UHCInAfrica
Ghana
Children under 18, elderly and indigents in Ghana have free access to health services through the National Health Insurance Scheme #HealthForAll #UNGA2019 #UHCInAfrica
Sudan
UHC partnerships in Sudan have supported the formulation of the National Health Policy 2017-2030, emphasizing the Health in All Policies approach #HealthForAll #UNGA2019 #UHCInAfrica
Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone developed new 5 year strategy (2017-2021) to improve quality of health services & make them accessible, affordable & equitable to all #HealthForAll #UNGA2019 #UHCInAfrica
In pursuit of our vision of creating lasting health change in communities, we catalyse progress towards UHC through solutions in human resources for health, innovative health service delivery and health financing #HealthForAll #UNGA2019 #UHCInAfrica
Success of #UHC depends on the ability to provide quality services to all people irrespective of their social and economic backgrounds #HealthForAll #UNGA2019 #UHCInAfrica
For Africa to achieve #UHC, governments need to increase funding and domestic resources for healthcare to a recommended target of at least 5% of GDP #HealthForAll #UNGA2019 #UHCInAfrica
Building #UHC in Africa starts with communities who need to be empowered to raise their voices & claim their right to health – to access quality health care services when & where needed without suffering financial hardship #HealthForAll #UNGA2019 #UHCInAfrica
The UN High-Level Meeting will mobilise high-level political leadership to drive meaningful country action towards achieving UHC by 2030 #HealthForAll #UNGA2019 #UHCInAfrica
Adopting Political Declaration on #UHC is a key step towards reaffirming and advancing target 3.8 of SDGs in which all countries committed to achieve UHC by 2030 #HealthForAll #UNGA2019 #UHCInAfrica
Dr. Githinji Gitahi, our Group CEO & Global Co-Chair #UHC2030 will be attending the UN High-Level Meeting themed “Universal Health Coverage: Moving Together to Build a Healthier World” at #UNGA2019, New York, USA on September 23rd #HealthForAll
Heads of State attending the UN High-Level Meeting will sign the 1st Political Declaration on #UHC reaffirming their commitment to achieve #UHC by 2030 #HealthForAll #UNGA2019 #UHCInAfrica
We believe that the #UHC Political Declaration will set the stage for countries to improve access to quality health services by communities without financial hardship #HealthForAll #UNGA2019 #UHCInAfrica
At the UN High-Level Meeting on #UHC in New York, we will call upon governments in Africa to put communities at the centre of #UHC #HealthForAll #UNGA2019 #UHCInAfrica