One Year Commemoration of the High-Level Meeting on UHC - Measuring Progress Challenges and Opportunities in the Context of COVID-19

 One Year Commemoration of the High-Level Meeting on UHC - Measuring Progress Challenges and Opportunities in the Context of COVID-19(meeting)

Date	8 October 2020
Participants	Elizabeth Cousens, Motegi Toshimitsu, Don Pramudwinai, David Zalkaliani, Raychelle Omamo, Amadou Ba, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, Daniel Salinas, Harsh Vardhan, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Wendy Morton, Marjeta Jager, Ishikane Kimihiro, Antonio Guterres, Tedros Ghebreyesus, Henrietta Fore, Seth Berkley, Richard Hatchett, Sylvana Q. Sinha, Khuat Thi Hai Oanh
Interests	build back better
Description	A number of ministers meeting online under the aegis of the WHO Director-General, musing on the challenges and opportunities for "building back better"

The One Year Commemoration of the High-Level Meeting on UHC - Measuring Progress Challenges and Opportunities in the Context of COVID-19 was an online meeting of a number of ministers under the aegis of the WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros, musing on the challenges and opportunities for "building back better"

Own words

Dr. Tedros, WHO Director-General, joined the Foreign Ministers of Japan, Thailand and Georgia to host a Ministerial Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the High-level Meeting on UHC and promote the release of the UN Secretary-General's Policy Brief on COVID-19 and UHC. Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Ministers of Health from around the world reflected on the commitments made in the Political Declaration on UHC, taking stock of national and global efforts to deliver UHC in the context of COVID-19 and the challenges and opportunities for building back better for a more equitable and sustainable world. The Foreign Minister of Japan announced US$130 million to the COVAX Advanced Market Commitments, of which the United Kingdom matched £32.5 million.

The event also included a thematic panel with global health leaders, who explored new and innovative partnerships to accelerate and scale up the development, production, and equitable access to COVID-19 tests, treatments, and vaccines, as well as needed health system transformation to better protect health and human security.

 

Known Participants

5 of the 20 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Seth Berkley	GAVI epidemiologist
Henrietta Fore	As Executive Director of UNICEF worked in collaboration with GAVI, CEPI and the World Health Organization, among others, to facilitate COVID-19 vaccination.
Tedros Ghebreyesus	WHO Director General who announced COVID fatality as 3.4%
António Guterres	Bilderberger US Secretary general, particularly aggressive promoter of COVID jab mandation
Richard Hatchett	Early pusher (2001) for obligatory confinement of the whole population in case of biological emergency.

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