NCD Alliance has revised and re-released its briefing paper on NCDs and Universal Health Coverage to mark UHC Day 2018.

This policy brief is an update to the NCD Alliance’s 2014 brief UHC and NCDs: A mutually reinforcing agenda, and reflects the developments in both the NCD response and UHC agenda since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the SDGs5. It makes the case for including NCDs in national UHC benefit packages in order to fully achieve the 2030 Agenda target of healthy lives and well-being for all at all ages.

On 25 October 2018 world leaders will gather at the Global Conference on Primary Health Care to renew a 40-year commitment to primary health care as "health for all".

Progress on UHC is inextricably linked to progress tackling NCDs, said NCD Alliance and other organisations in a statement to the Regional Committee Meeting of WHO's Southeast Asia region.

Launched on Human Rights Day, Waiting for Health Project is a new photo series that shares the faces and stories of some of the millions of people still waiting for health.

Three years ago, on 12 December 2012, the United Nations unanimously endorsed a resolution urging governments to ensure universal access to quality health care without financial hardship. Now the United Nations has included universal health coverage in the new Sustainable Development Goals. 

A global coalition of 267 economists representing 44 countries is calling on policymakers to prioritise universal health coverage as an essential pillar of economic development.

Lack of access and high cost of care, essential medicines and technologies increases morbidity and mortality, and can force people and families into poverty due to disability and out-of-pocket expenses.