Search Tag: Sustainable Development Goals

2024 11 Jul

  The world faces an immense funding gap of 341 billion Euros annually to make meaningful progress toward health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Despite increasing global health expenditure, the pace remains inadequate, and universal health coverage (UHC) expansion is stalling. Financial protection is worsening globally, and...Read more

2020 02 Sep

Universal health coverage (UHC) means enabling all people to receive necessary healthcare services without experiencing financial burden. A new study (GBD 2019 Universal Health Coverage Collaborators 2020) has assessed progress on UHC effective coverage for 204 countries and territories over the past three decades (1990 to 2019).   You might...Read more

2017 25 Sep

The 2015 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set the target of access to "safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all”, access to medicines long recognised as integral to achieving the right to health.  Yet the SDGs also stressed the need for coordination and cooperation -  emphasising the role of trade, partnership...Read more