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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please find my reflections from the High-level Meeting on UHC and UNGA74 in the two blogs below.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All bests, Remco <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Change is gonna come <o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“I was this week in New York, at the United Nations. More specifically I participated in the UN High Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage as a representative of the Medicus Mundi International - Network Health for All! The UHC meeting
was part of a series of high-level political meetings taking place before and during the 74th session of the UN General Assembly.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In preparation for the HLM on UHC, I already wrote that I consider the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) a kind of “golden straightjacket” and that we need to alter the narrative on health development towards an overall “limits to growth”
thinking. In this article, I will mainly reflect on the process, setting and actors present at (and around) UNGA74, specifically related to UHC. After an intensive week of listening to national Presidents and others praising the UHC momentum, rushing between
strategic meetings and side events in (too) fancy New York hotels, and ‘Walking the Talk’ in Central Park, I can distill several observations from all this frantic activity.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/featured-article/change-is-gonna-come-whether-you-we-like-it-or-not/">https://www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/featured-article/change-is-gonna-come-whether-you-we-like-it-or-not/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>The Universal Health Coverage Divide<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“So, where are we now, 30 years after the fall of the Berlin wall? The UHC declaration indicates that the (seductive) story of sustainable development and inclusive economic growth remains pervasive. This includes the image of ‘explanatory
nationalism’ which holds that national differences in development trajectories are the key factors explaining why severe poverty persists. The focus on domestic resource mobilization largely ignores the reality of deep globalization and what economists refer
to as a golden straightjacket. Following this line, I doubt that many low-income countries will have the fiscal space to finance inclusive UHC by 2030, unless more heterodox economic approaches in public investment are considered.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/blogs/the-universal-health-coverage-divide/">https://www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/blogs/the-universal-health-coverage-divide/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="NL" style="color:#17365D">Dr. Remco van de Pas
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL" style="color:#44546A">Senior Research Fellow Global Health Policy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL" style="color:#44546A">Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL" style="color:#44546A">Lecturer Global Health, Maastricht University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546A;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Departement of Public Health
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546A;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Nationalestraat 155, 2000<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546A;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Antwerp, Belgium<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL" style="color:#44546A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL" style="color:#44546A">Email: </span><a href="mailto:rvandepas@itg.be"><span lang="NL" style="color:#44546A">rvandepas@itg.be</span></a><span lang="NL" style="color:#44546A"> /
</span><a href="mailto:r.vandepas@maastrichtuniversity.nl"><span lang="NL" style="color:#44546A">r.vandepas@maastrichtuniversity.nl</span></a><span style="color:#44546A">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL" style="color:#44546A">Tel: +32 484737245/ +31 625312879
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL" style="color:#44546A">Skype: r.vandepas <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL" style="color:#44546A">Twitter: @Rvandepas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL" style="color:#44546A">Web: </span><a href="http://www.internationalhealthpolicies.org"><span lang="NL">http://www.internationalhealthpolicies.org</span></a><span style="color:#44546A">
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