Putting women, children and adolescents at the heart of universal health coverage

Overview

The movement for universal health coverage (UHC) provides an unprecedented opportunity to accelerate progress towards ending preventable deaths and improving the health and well-being of women, children and adolescents around the world. At the same time, the UHC movement needs to recognize that in order to achieve its aims it must address the health needs of women, children and adolescents, who are often the most vulnerable people, with the least power and influence.

All those who support women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health (WCAH) must strive to ensure that United Nations and World Health Assembly resolutions on UHC, as well as national UHC strategies, explicitly place WCAH at the heart of UHC.