Anniversary Photo Exhibit: Toward Good Health and Well-being

Celebrating 120 Years of Solidarity in Advancing Health and Well-Being, Leaving No One Behind

Universal access to health and universal health coverage imply that all people and communities have access, without any kind of discrimination, to comprehensive, appropriate and timely, quality health services determined at the national level according to needs, as well as access to safe, effective, and affordable quality medicines, while ensuring that the use of such services does not expose users to financial difficulties, especially groups in conditions of vulnerability.

Health outcomes in the Region are heavily influenced by income, gender, ethnicity, cultural identification, geographic location, and education, as well as access to services and infrastructure.

"Transforming our World: the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development,” an ambitious vision for a new era of global development from 2016-2030. The Agenda, seen as a universal plan of action for people, planet, peace, prosperity, and partnership, serves as a call to action for all countries and stakeholders to form collaborative partnerships to address the most pressing social, economic, environmental, and governance challenges of our time.

Health outcomes in the Region are heavily influenced by income, gender, ethnicity, cultural identification, geographic location, and education, as well as access to services and infrastructure. The 2030 Agenda has the potential to address these gaps through the promotion of multisectoral programming that seeks to address the inequalities that persistently produce poor health outcomes, with particular attention paid to the social, economic, and environmental conditions in which people are born, live, work, learn, and age.

Many of the 2030 Agenda’s principles are well-aligned with the PAHO’s priorities and actions, which have been advanced by highlighting equity in the Strategic Plan 2014-2019 and mainstreaming the Cross-Cutting Themes of gender, ethnicity, and human rights across all PAHO’s activities.

Complementing the cooperation between PAHO’s existing commitments and those presented by 2030 Agenda, PAHO has taken a series of concrete steps to actively participate in this new cycle of global commitment to sustainable development, making it relevant for countries as they develop their own plans leading to a future in which no one is left behind.

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