Africa: Commitment to Community Health Workers is Essential for Achieving Universal Health Coverage

[Communities at the Heart of UHC] The atmosphere was electric last month at the African Health Agenda International Conference in Kigali, Rwanda, sparked by a renewed sense of commitment to community health with the African launch of the World Health Organization (WHO) community health guidelines. Placing community health at the center of the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) movement is a global commitment to equity in ensuring that women, men and children living in rural and hard-to-reach areas have access to quality, primary health care (
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Source Type: news