As heads of state and senior global development leaders gather today for a Financing for Development meeting against a backdrop of falling global health funding, we urge for decisions now on rethinking how we can finance health for universal access to care.
Recent freezes and cuts in official development assistance threaten to thwart progress toward universal health coverage, or UHC, and health-related Sustainable Development Goal targets.
These decisions have already reduced access to essential health services — including for sexual and reproductive health, HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria — and endangered millions of lives.