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Universal health coverage (UHC) is rapidly emerging as an essential framework to promote healthy lives and wellbeing for all people. Improving the health of women, girls and adolescents, is at the centre of UHC’s broad health and development goals, and critical to their achievement. During the 72nd session of the World Health Assembly, 20-28 May 2019, PMNCH in collaboration with partners will host events throughout the week that highlight principles, opportunities, and challenges for the inclusion of women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health (WCAH) in national UHC packages, provide a preview of how the UHC menu of interventions will be developed and demonstrate high-level political commitment to WCAH.
Sunday, 19 May
Addressing barriers to scaling and access for health innovations
16:00-18:30 | Intercontinental Hotel, Room Méditerannée
The Every Woman Every Child Innovation Marketplace will host an interactive event presenting access for innovators through an engaging dialogue on the standards, processes, challenges and changing roles of partners in the procurement ecosystem. Innovators will also pitch some of the marketplace's new, most impactful medical devices, technologies and service delivery systems.
Hosted by: PMNCH, The Global Financing Facility and the EWEC Secretariat
During the Every Woman Every Child Innovation Marketplace Side Event, PMNCH Executive Director Helga Fogstad announced a new partnership between the EWEC Innovation Marketplace and PMNCH to harmonize efforts and explore the potential of a unified platform for innovation and digital technology for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health and well-being.
Women, children and adolescents: Ensuring their needs are met through UHC
17:30-19:30 |Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Rhone 2 & 3
A reception hosted by PMNCH and partners will highlight data and evidence on the scope of women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health needs and the impact of addressing those needs through UHC packages. This event will also share information on the tool WHO is preparing for countries to guide the process of identifying key health interventions for inclusion in national packages.
Hosted by: PMNCH, Government of India, World Health Organization, UHC2030 and the EWEC Secretariat
Monday, 20 May
UHC to deliver the Global Strategy: Rethinking quality midwifery education
18:00-19:30 | Palais des Nations, Room 23
UNFPA, UNICEF, WHO and ICM will release a joint report on a Framework for Action: Strengthening quality midwifery education for UHC2030; and together with participants, set out how to move forward the Action Plan.
Hosted by: Governments of Canada, India, Malawi, Nepal, Sweden and the United Kingdom
Adolescents: The missing population in UHC
18:00-20:00 | Vieux-bois Restaurant
This side-event aims to advance the global adolescent health agenda as an integral component of UHC and will focus on the latest evidence from Member States in their efforts to improve the health of adolescents. Experts will be invited to critically appraise the unique set of barriers that hinder adolescents’ access to health services and discuss evidence-based solutions.
Hosted by: PMNCH, UNICEF, World Health Organization, Independent Accountability Panel and the EWEC Secretariat.
Tuesday, 21 May
SRHR: An essential element to achieving UHC and the SDGs
12:00 - 13:30 | Chateau de Penthes, Espace Gallatin
This event will share evidence and arguments demonstrating why comprehensive SRHR interventions need to be positioned as an essential component of UHC. It will highlight the challenges and opportunities for countries in making decisions about the inclusion of SRHR into their UHC agenda; and provide an opportunity for the voices of women and youth to be heard regarding the design of UHC services that respect their needs, rights and priorities.
Hosted by: PMNCH, Government of Sweden, World Health Organization/HRP, UNFPA and EWEC Secretariat
Universal health coverage and migration: leaving no one behind
18:00 - 19:30 | Palais des Nations, Room VII
This side event will focus on improving understanding of population dynamics and movement and looking for ways of responding to the challenges of UHC through the prism of health and social development. In particular it will address the public health and demographic reality of women, children and adolescents in humanitarian and fragile settings.
Hosted by: The Governments of Colombia, Ecuador, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Sudan and Turkey.
High level briefing on aligning women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health and well-being in humanitarian and fragile settings in the context of UHC
13:00 - 14:30 | 13:00 - 14:30 | WIPO, AB Building, Salle A. 34
This event will engage key partners on the goal of achieving universal health coverage and leaving no one behind, particularly the most vulnerable populations, such as women, children and adolescents. It will also introduce PMNCH’s initiative to enhance coordination and alignment of policies and actions to advance women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health and well-being in humanitarian and fragile settings.
Hosted by: World Health Organization, The World Bank and PMNCH
Wednesday, 22 May
Putting prevention at the centre of universal health coverage
12:00-13:30 | Maison Rose at Centre d'Accueil Genève Internationale
Member States and partners at this roundtable discussion will share progress and challenges of implementing a multi-sectoral approach to Universal Health Coverage (UHC), with a particular focus on the role of nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and other key determinants of health.
Hosted by: WaterAid, Nutrition International, Results, Action Contre La Faim, World Obesity, Global Nutrition Report, AMREF and SUN
The Role of Government in Welcoming the Voice of the People
18:00 - 20:00 | Vieux-Bois Restaurant, Entre Actes
Building on evidence and experiences, and the discussions from the Social Accountability Symposium in 2018, this session will provide ministries of health, multilateral and donor representatives, and implementing partners with a set of solutions towards realizing strategic public accountability objectives.
Hosted by: PMNCH, IAP, CORE Group and the organizations of the Citizen-Led Accountability Coalition
Thursday, 23 May
Leaving no one behind on the road to UHC: where are women, children and adolescents
7:45 - 9:30 | Chateau de Penthes
This event will provide an opportunity to engage in an interactive discussion on the key findings and messages from the IAP reports (in particular, Private Sector: Who is Accountable?) and two recent reports by OECD. Speakers and participants alike will share good practices and challenges to delivering on the pledge of the 2030 Agenda to leave no one behind.
Hosted by: The Independent Accountability Panel, OECD, PMNCH and the EWEC Secretariat
Every newborn everywhere: closing gaps in neonatal care
18:00 - 20:00 | Intercontinental Hotel
The session will share knowledge and experience for driving progress on newborn health, with special focus on transforming inpatient care of the most vulnerable newborns, those born too small, too soon, and who are acutely ill, particularly in low and middle-income countries and humanitarian settings.
Hosted by: The World Health Organization, PMNCH and the EWEC Secretariat
16:00-18:30 | Intercontinental Hotel, Room Méditerannée
The Every Woman Every Child Innovation Marketplace will host an interactive event presenting access for innovators through an engaging dialogue on the standards, processes, challenges and changing roles of partners in the procurement ecosystem. Innovators will also pitch some of the marketplace's new, most impactful medical devices, technologies and service delivery systems.
Hosted by: PMNCH, The Global Financing Facility and the EWEC Secretariat