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Delegates assess impact of Covid-19 on Universal Health Coverage
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Fredrick Obura | December 11th 2020 at 01:35:00 GMT +0300
More than 2000 delegates from over 100 countries convened for the virtual Lives in the Balance: Improving the health of women, children, and adolescents through the Universal Health Coverage summit on Friday.
The delegates took stock of how the COVID-19 has affected progress towards achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC), launched new commitments towards improving the health of women, children, and adolescents, and galvanized a participatory approach from all stakeholders to ensure the world can ‘do better’ during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
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Thu Dec 10 2020
More than 2,000 delegates from over 100 countries are to convene on Friday for a summit marking the Universal Health Coverage Day 2020, with Daily Trust taking part.
The summit on Friday, themed Lives in the Balance, is to elicit commitments by global leaders to improve the health of women, children and adolescents through Universal Health Coverage.
It will take stock of how the COVID-19 has affected progress towards achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC), launch new commitments towards improving the health of women, children and adolescents, and galvanize a participatory approach from all stakeholders to ensure we can ‘do better’ during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.