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- Nearly 2 billion people globally have no access to essential medicines—resulting in greater pain and suffering, prolonged illness, needless disabilities and preventable deaths (World Health Organization, 2017).
Dec 13, 2017 · At least half of the world’s population cannot obtain essential health services, according to a new report from the World Bank and WHO. And each year, large numbers of households are being pushed into poverty because they must pay for health care out of their own pockets.
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Sep 20, 2019 · Despite UHC being the cornerstone of Goal 3, and Goal 3 being central to the SDGs as a whole, as we look at the progress made so far, at least half the world’s population still lacks access to essential health services. Almost 100 million people are pushed into extreme poverty each year because of out-of-pocket health expenses. Surely we can ...
Dec 9, 2019 · Nearly 2 billion people globally have no access to essential medicines—resulting in greater pain and suffering, prolonged illness, needless disabilities and preventable deaths (World Health Organization, 2017).
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Jun 14, 2024 · Countries face a range of obstacles to achieving this, including rising prices for new medicines; shortages and stock outs of essential medicines, especially for noncommunicable diseases, and the growing problem of substandard and falsified medical products entering the global supply chain.
Sep 18, 2023 · In 2021, about 4.5 billion people, more than half of the global population, were not fully covered by essential health services. And this estimate does not yet reflect the potential long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Financial hardship due to out-of-pocket health spending is worsening.
Sep 21, 2023 · Access to basis healthcare caused financial hardship for nearly two billion people, while over 1.3 billion were pushed back or pushed deeper into poverty just trying to access basic...
Sep 9, 2020 · Challenges in access to medicines include affordability, availability, acceptability and accessibility. Over the past two decades, multiple access tools have been developed to address each of these challenges, with a focus on diseases that disproportionately affect people living in low-income countries.
