Stories from Civil Society on Protecting Everyone
UHC Day | 12.12.2020 | Health for All: Protect EveryoneIn the lead-up to UHC Day 2020 (“Health for All: Protect Everyone”), we are highlighting how CSEM member organizations are contributing to ensure the COVID-19 response protects everyone and keeping momentum going for universal health coverage amid the crisis.
Join us for the virtual UHC Day rally on 12 December 2020 — share your commitment to UHC and call on decision-makers to protect everyone! For the global campaign, visit www.uhcday.org.
A Clarion Call for Diverse Youth: Keeping Universal Health Coverage on the Agenda
Africa’s youth, the continent’s largest demographic, are increasingly at the forefront of social and political activism. Faced with systemic inequities, limited access to healthcare, and growing economic challenges, young people are demanding change. Universal...
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...
Smile Train: Continuing Cleft Care with Partnerships and Telehealth
Smile Train, the world's largest charity focused on comprehensive cleft care, continued to provide surgical services and ongoing cleft care to patients across...
[Democratic Republic of the Congo] Partnering for Health Education and Psychosocial Support
Stopping the Coronavirus Spread in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Unique Community-based Civil Society Intervention Providing Health Education and...
[India] Multiple Sclerosis Society of India, Chennai
WATCH: Leaders, we need health policies that include everyone. A short video campaign initiated by CSEM Advisory Group member and MSSI Chennai Chapter...
Frontline AIDS: Protecting HIV Service Delivery for All
Frontline AIDS, a global partnership of organizations working at the frontline of the world’s HIV/AIDS response, is familiar with the importance of making...
CIVICUS: Documenting solidarity and innovation by CSOs during the pandemic
Solidarity in the Time of COVID-19, the new report from CIVICUS, documents civil society’s vital response to the pandemic, setting out how civil society helped...
CIVICUS: Documentando la solidaridad y innovación de las OSC durante la pandemia
El nuevo informe de CIVICUS, La solidaridad en tiempos de COVID-19, documenta las vitales respuestas de la sociedad civil frente a la pandemia y expone las...
[Kenya] UYCDP: Responding to Urgent Community Needs
The Ugenya Youth and Community Development Project notes that while mortality rates from COVID-19 has been low in Kenya compared to the rest of the world,...
[Tanzania] YEV: Responding to urgent community needs
Youth and Environment Vision (YEV), based in Mwanza in Tanzania, started working on COVID-19 awareness and provision of protective materials in March 2020...
Special Olympics: Inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities
The Special Olympics movement aims to achieve the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities (ID)—a marginalized group whose needs are rarely...
Wemos: Investing in health systems to protect everyone
The dichotomy between the privileged and the disadvantaged has become as bright as day during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in low- and middle-income...