Conversation September 17, 2019
Maisam Najafizada

This Sept. 23, the United Nations General Assembly invites world leaders and delegates to converge for a meeting about universal health coverage (UHC) that’s expected to result in a political declaration.

Since 2012 UHC has become a policy framework through which the UN has pledged to improve global health. Getting countries to implement UHC globally is also a now a sub-goal in the larger global aim of ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages (Sustainable Development Goal 3) by 2030.

The important place of UHC in the UN’s agenda means that countries such as Canada, for example, are assessing their international development partnerships partly by considering how much “progress” Global South nations are making with UHC....

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