World Health Day is approaching, and the focus isn’t just on beating diabetes, but also on the bigger goal of achieving universal health coverage for all — and the huge task of getting there.
Health NGOs have spearheaded a campaign calling on members of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on the Sustainable Development Goals to revert back to the original World Health Organization and World Bank indicator on financial protection under health-focused SDG 3, but no clear outcomes appear to have been reached during last week’s third meeting of the IAEG-SDGs in Mexico City.
Health advocates are worried that the longer it takes for the expert group to reconsider, the worse the odds are of getting the right indicator in place.
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Jenny Lei Ravelo@JennyLeiRavelo
Jenny Lei Ravelo is a Devex Senior Reporter based in Manila. She covers global health, with a particular focus on the World Health Organization, and other development and humanitarian aid trends in Asia Pacific. Prior to Devex, she wrote for ABS-CBN, one of the largest broadcasting networks in the Philippines, and was a copy editor for various international scientific journals. She received her journalism degree from the University of Santo Tomas.
