Health: A Political Choice – Act Now, Together

Oct 22, 2020

Health: A Political Choice – Act Now, Together

World Leaders Unite in Their Response to COVID-19

PR Newswire "The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented global disruption and challenges. It has highlighted and widened existing gaps in universal health coverage and exposed the pressing need for high-quality essential health services for all – without a price tag. Health: A Political Choice – Act Now, Together calls on world leaders to unite in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic and other imminent and long-term threats to population health and the global economy. It is the latest in a series of titles produced in collaboration with the World Health Organization, the first of which – Health: A Political Choice – called for UHC.

(...) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: "It has never been clearer that health is a political and economic choice. In the past 20 years, countries have invested heavily in preparing for terrorist attacks, but relatively little in preparing for the attack of a virus – which, as the COVID-19 pandemic has proven, can be far more deadly, disruptive and costly." (Photo: World Health Organization/ United States Mission Geneva/flickr, CC BY-ND 2.0)

View Health: A Political Choice – Act Now, Together online at https://bit.ly/HAPC2020