Chaitanya Kumar Koduri Author

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Access to Quality Assured Medicines for Universal Health Coverage

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Chaitanya Kumar Koduri

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) reports, more than 50 percent of the world’s population does not yet have full coverage of essential health services and 12 percent of the population spends large amounts of their household income on health. Universal health coverage (UHC) aims to provide health services to people who need them without the burden of financial hardship when paying for them. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically goal 3.8 asks countries to work towards providing “access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all” . This is in support of the UHC goals of the UN member countries to ensure access to essential services, including safe, quality-assured ess... view more»

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