Strengthening NCD service delivery through UHC benefit package
technical meeting report, Geneva, Switzerland, 14-15 July 2020
Description:... Under Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 3.4, the World Health Organization (WHO) and its Member States committed to reduce premature mortality from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), which were responsible for 71% of all deaths globally in 2016.3 Another cornerstone of the SDG Agenda is achieving universal health coverage (UHC); SDG target 3.8 aims to “achieve UHC, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health care services and access to safe, effective, quality, and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all.” However, the COVID-19 epidemic has created major new challenges to achieving these (and other) SDGs. COVID-19 has a deadly interplay with NCDs; further, it has laid bare the fragility of health systems
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