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NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK – On the sidelines of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is organizing a record number of meetings and events fostering public-private collaboration and highlighting the indispensable role of the private sector in achieving the UN’s global targets. As part of this effort, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce released an in-depth white paper on how innovative financing can help meet Universal Health Coverage (UHC) targets by 2030.  “The global community faces a monumental task in ensuring that Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) achieve their UHC goals by 2030, especially given a collective funding gap of $176 billion,” said Varnee Murugan, Executive Director of the Global Initiative on Health and the Economy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. “However, the Chamber knows firsthand how the private sector remains underleveraged when it comes to the promise of innovative financing, which

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