Taking action for universal health coverage 

The UN High-Level Meeting on UHC 2023

About the UN High-Level Meeting on UHC 2023

The 2023 UN High-level meeting (UN HLM) on universal health coverage (UHC) provides countries and stakeholders an opportunity to reinvigorate progress towards delivering health for all.

To ensure implementation and accountability, we need an action-oriented outcome that builds on the 2019 Political Declaration and focuses on creating resilient and equitable health systems, with primary health care as a foundation.

The theme for the UN High-Level Meeting on UHC is: Universal Health Coverage: expanding our ambition for health and well-being in a post-COVID world

    Click here to watch the event live on 21 September 2023 from 10.00 to 18.00 ET 

    Engage, advocate and participate

    Now is the time to call on your governments to commit to the highest political level of participation at the UN HLM on UHC and to assemble a gender-balanced national delegation of key stakeholders. Throughout the summer, keep up your advocacy efforts using our advocacy toolkit: 

    UN HLM Tweet Sheet

    UN HLM Advocacy Letter | French | Spanish

    Full UN HLM Social Media Toolkit 

    All partners in the UHC movement, whether government representatives, parliamentarians, academia, civil society or the private sector, must advocate for a strong UN HLM Political Declaration that advances UHC at the community, regional, national, regional and global levels.  

    UHC2030 encourages all partners to use the advocacy toolkit as a basis for coordinated advocacy efforts in the final moments leading up to the UN HLM. 

    And don't forget to sign up for our newsletter for updates this fall on how to engage in our final campaign ahead of the health-related HLMs.  

    There are many other ways to engage, advocate, and participate in the run-up to the September 2023 High-level meeting on UHC. For information about UHC progress, refer to the UHC Data Portal and the State of UHC Commitment. You can also find additional messaging and resources here:

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    Action Agenda from the UHC Movement

    The Action Agenda from the UHC Movement has been drafted by an inclusive, multi-stakeholder Task Force, which brings together twenty representatives from UHC2030 constituencies and beyond. Building on the 2019 Key Asks and 2019 Political Declaration commitment areas, the Action Agenda is based on the latest data to address the challenges of the global health context.

    A public consultation took place from January 6th to February 6th, 2023. Its results will help to finalize the Action Agenda. The Action Agenda, with action-oriented policy recommendations and concrete milestones, was presented to the President of the UN General Assembly ahead of the 2023 UHC political declaration negotiation. 

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    UHC2030 and the UN HLM

    In September 2019, at the first United Nations High-Level Meeting (UN HLM) on UHC, world leaders endorsed the most ambitious and comprehensive political declaration on health in history. However, according to the latest global monitoring report on universal health coverage, UHC progress is not on track, and the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the world further away from the 2023 targets set by the political declaration:

    • Progressively covering 1 billion additional people, with a view of covering all people by 2030;
    • Stopping the rise and reversing the trend of catastrophic out-of-pocket health expenditure and eliminate impoverishment due to health-related expenses by 2030.

    UHC2030’s latest State of UHC Commitment Review Key Findings also find that in 2022, progress on UHC has stalled and in some cases has reversed. Accelerating progress towards universal health coverage and delivering on political commitments made in 2019 has never been more urgent. Concrete action is needed to strengthen equitable health systems – including public health functions that are critical for pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.

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