ABSTRACT
In recent years, the global Universal Health Coverage movement has gained momentum, with the World Health Assembly and the United Nations General Assembly calling on countries to “urgently and significantly scale up efforts to accelerate the transition towards universal access to affordable and quality healthcare services.” The theme for the World Health Day, 2018: Universal Coverage – everyone, everywhere. “Health for All” has therefore been our guiding vision for more than seven decades. It has also been the impetus behind the current-organisation wide drive to support countries in moving towards Universal Health Coverage. UHC aims to achieve better health and development outcomes, help prevent people from falling into poverty due to illness, and give people the opportunity to lead healthier, more productive lives.
KEYWORDS:Health, Health for all, Universal health coverage (UHC)