Universal Health Coverage and multisectoral action will be themes of the NCD Café that NCD Alliance is hosting at the AMREF Africa Health Agenda International Conference 2019.

A Forum was held right after UHC Day 2018 (12 Dec) in Dubai, UAE gathering national and regional stakeholders to unify efforts towards UHC in the context of SDGs, highlighting the need to improve prevention and early detection of NCDs and to transform health insurance systems to ensure continuity of care.

Monday 23 September, the first one day UN High-Level Meeting on Universal health coverage (UHC): Moving together to build a healthier world will be held in New York.

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".