With today being Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day, many stakeholders are rightly concerned about the stalling progress towards the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG3) "Good Health and Well-being,” of which UHC is an integral part. Since many SDG indicators of progress are outcome-focused, they cannot tell us why progress is stalling and therefore what needs to be done. To advance toward SDG3, policymakers need to shed light on why progress is stalling. For that, we need different data and we argue that health facility surveys can help move the policy community forward in the right direction.
The COVID-19 pandemic gave the world an insider’s view into global health supply chain weaknesses. Shortages of medical masks, test kits, personal protective equipment (PPE), and ventilators severely hampered the initial response in most countries.
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