CSEM for UHC2030 at the 4th Global NCD Alliance Forum
The 4th Global NCD Alliance (NCDA) Forum is just around the corner, taking place in Kigali, Rwanda, from February 13-15, 2024. As we gather to discuss critical global health challenges, we invite you to participate in two key in-person events designed to coordinate...
Universal health coverage is on the government: Aligning political will and advocacy for UHC in Botswana
This blog, authored by Success Capital Organisation for the CSEM for UHC2030 Secretariat, explores the transformative political and health landscape in Botswana following the 2024 elections. It highlights the government’s commitment to Universal Health Coverage (UHC)...
Who can’t afford to get ill? The missing target in the World Bank’s drive for Universal Health Coverage
With the bank poised to replenish funds to back expansion of healthcare among the world’s poorest people, it needs to measure what matters – and what matters is that billions are being forced into poverty and hardship by the costs of care. Anna Marriott, Rosemary...
Advocacy Letter
UHC Day 2024 Campaign With only six years remaining to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the world remains significantly off track to achieve the 2030 Agenda. The statistics are alarming: At least 4.5 billion people — more than half of the world’s...
CSEM at the Regional Adolescent Health Indaba (RAHi) in Zambia
The Youth Platform (TYP) and the Civil Society Engagement Mechanism for UHC2030 (CSEM) collaborated to organize a workshop designed to empower youth advocates with the essential knowledge and skills needed to promote Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and ensure health...
CSEM and UHC2030 at the United Nations Multi-stakeholder Hearings on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
Background AMR occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites no longer respond to antimicrobial agents. As a result of drug resistance, antibiotics and other antimicrobial agents become ineffective and infections become difficult or impossible to treat,...
Towards more effective and equitable Health Data Governance
Public consultation on a draft model law (7-30th April) To fully harness the potential of health data for public benefit and improved health outcomes, while also managing risks, protecting individual rights, and ensuring people’s data is protected from...
Is Global Health on the ballot?
It’s World Health Day today. 2024’s theme is “My health, my right”. Every year, we use this day to draw people’s attention to urgent health challenges in the world, and remind world leaders to step up and ensure every child and person worldwide can realise their right...
Social Participation
Social Participation Social participation relates to the empowerment of people, communities, and civil society to participate in – and thereby influence – decision-making processes for health. It is the cornerstone of equitable, inclusive, transparent, and...
Getting UHC on the ballot! Civil Society engagement to influence elections in their country in 2024
This section is dedicated to articles/ blogs/ testimonials from CSEM members who share their successful experiences of electoral advocacy, good practice, actions and events held to put universal public health at the top of the national political agenda. To be...
