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Tag: health coverage

  • Thursday, October 17th 2019 - 09:05 UTC

    Universal Health Coverage passes key global milestone

    The resolution, adopted at the IPU Assembly in Belgrade comes after heads of state agreed a high-level United Nations Political Declaration on UHC in New York. Image: Emirates News agency

    The World Health Organization welcomed a new Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Resolution on achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030. The resolution, adopted at the IPU Assembly in Belgrade, Serbia, comes one month after heads of state agreed on a high-level United Nations Political Declaration on UHC in New York.

  • Monday, June 15th 2015 - 05:19 UTC

    Health spending pushing low and middle income countries further into poverty

    ”We must expand access to health and protect the poorest from health expenses that are causing them severe financial hardship,” says Dr. Tim Evans

    A World Health Organization and World Bank Group report shows that 400 million people do not have access to essential health services and 6% of people in low- and middle-income countries are tipped into or pushed further into extreme poverty because of health spending.