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STORY: UN / UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / JAPANESE / NATS
DATELINE: 18 SEPTEMBER 2017, NEW YORK CITY
18 SEPTEMBER 2017, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, UNHQ exterior
2. Wide shot, meeting room
3. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister, Japan:
“The promotion of universal health coverage is essential for addressing these challenges and achieving the principle of the 2030 Agenda and realizing a society where no one is left behind.”
4. Wide shot, delegates in attendance
5. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister, Japan:
“We need to pursue universal health coverage in the context of social changes such as the concentration of populations in urban areas and aging societies mainly seen in Asia.”
6. Wide shot, meeting room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The SDGs and universal health coverage share a common philosophy in their aim for inclusiveness and universality that transcend geographical distance, cultural differences, gender, citizenship, and other social determinants. We need stronger more integrated health systems capable of responding equitably to the unique needs of their communities so no one goes without quality health services.”
8. Wide shot, meeting room
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
(Soundbite starts under cutaway) “It’s a scandal to me that people must choose between buying medicine and buying food. It’s a scandal that sickness can plunge an entire family into poverty because a bread-winner is unable to work. It’s a scandal that a mother could lose her baby because the services needed to save it are too far away. We cannot accept a world like that; we must not accept a world like that.”
10. Wide shot, WHO Director-General at podium
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
“All countries at all income levels can do more with the resources they have and can take action now to improve the health of their populations. You will hear me saying again and again that ultimately universal health coverage is a political choice. It takes vision, courage, and long-term thinking, but the payoff is a safer, fairer, and healthier world for everyone. It’s a smart investment.”
12. Wide shot, meeting room
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the promotion of universal health coverage is essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and “realizing a society where no one is left behind.”
Speaking at a high-level event at the UN headquarters today (18 Sep), Abe said international efforts to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) have made great progress but more remains to be done. He said UHC should be pursued in the context of social changes “such as the concentration of populations in urban areas and aging societies mainly seen in Asia.” The Japanese Prime Minster added that sustainable and inclusive UHC requires significant resources and underscored the importance of mobilizing resources from the private sector and international organizations in order to complement domestic efforts. He said Japan would be hosting the Universal Health Coverage Forum for 2017 in Tokyo this December and hoped to work closely with the participants to make progress on UHC.
UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) remind us that health is a fundamental human right adding that the SDGs and universal health coverage “share a common philosophy in their aim for inclusiveness and universality that transcend geographical distance, cultural differences, gender, citizenship, and other social determinants.” She said stronger more integrated health systems are need which would be “capable of responding equitably to the unique needs of their communities so no one goes without quality health services.”
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said it was a “scandal” that people must choose between buying medicine and buying food and called on participants not to accept such a world. He said all countries at all income levels can do more with the resources they have and can take action now to improve the health of their populations. He stressed that ultimately “universal health coverage is a political choice” adding that it takes “vision, courage, and long-term thinking, but the payoff is a safer, fairer, and healthier world for everyone.”
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