On World Health Day that falls on April 7, the World Health Organization celebrates 75 years of improving public health and well-being in the Southeast Asia region and globally, fully committed to achieving Health for All through universal health coverage (UHC) -- when all people can access the health services they need, when and where they need them, without financial hardship.
For many decades now -- and since even before the 1978 Declaration of Alma-Ata -- high-level leaders and policy makers from across the region have recognised the critical role that access to quality, affordable and comprehensive primary health care (PHC) can play in achieving UHC, and therefore Health for All.
