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Wright, Simon
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Tipping the Balance: Tackling unequal access to healthcare to drive progress on child survival
Tipping the Balance provides new evidence showing that children are denied their right to health based on the circumstances they grow up in. Children from poorer backgrounds are disproportionately affected by mortality and malnutrition. This steep social
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Primary Health Care First: Strengthening the foundation for universal health coverage
Universal health coverage (UHC) promises a world in which all people have access to the health services, vaccinations and medicines they need, without risk of financial hardship. A world where the right to health is realised for the 400 million people who
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Further, Faster, Fairer: Reaching every last child with immunisation
Immunisation saves lives and is undoubtedly one of the most successful and cost-effective health interventions, with far-reaching benefits. Improved coverage has contributed to the impressive 50% drop in child deaths globally between 1990 and 2015, from 1
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Universal Health Coverage: A Commitment to Close the Gap
A report by the Rockefeller Foundation, Save the Children, UNICEF and the World Health Organization. Universal Health Coverage (UHC) focuses on how and why inequity – unfair and avoidable inequalities – should be prioritised as countries progress on the p
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Halfway There: Delivering on the promise of immunisation for all
The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI Alliance) was established in 2000 in response to research that found nearly 17% of deaths in children under five years of age are due to diseases that could have been prevented by vaccine. It was man