Universal Health Coverage Important To Helping Prevent Next Outbreak, Health, Political Leaders Say

GlobalPost: At UNGA, preventing the next outbreak by supporting right to health
“…As heads of state have descended upon Manhattan to participate in this year’s U.N. General Assembly and adopt ambitious goals for the world to achieve in the next 15 years, a corps of health and political leaders including [Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf] are publicly stressing the importance of adopting universal health coverage to help stem the next outbreak of infectious disease…” (Calma et al., 9/30).

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