{"id":987521271,"date":"2021-07-12T03:02:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T02:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/leading-the-charge-insight-into-zambias-sexual-and-reproductive-health-advocacy-in-universal-health-coverage-financing-reforms\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:10:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:10:54","slug":"leading-the-charge-insight-into-zambias-sexual-and-reproductive-health-advocacy-in-universal-health-coverage-financing-reforms","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/leading-the-charge-insight-into-zambias-sexual-and-reproductive-health-advocacy-in-universal-health-coverage-financing-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading the Charge: Insight into Zambia\u2019s Sexual and Reproductive Health Advocacy in Universal Health Coverage Financing Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Access to affordable family planning is an essential component of &nbsp;universal health coverage (UHC) as it is one of the most effective interventions that have shown to reduce maternal and under- mortality rates. For Zambia, to include Family Planning (FP) in the national health insurance package, solidifies government commitment towards improving maternal and child health outcomes and also UHC<\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>The development of Zambia\u2019s first-ever National Health Insurance Scheme&nbsp;is key to realising its UHC objectives. Civil society action led by the Centre for Reproductive Health and&nbsp;Education designed and implemented a nimble advocacy strategy calling for the inclusion of FP and representation of civil society organisations (CSOs) in the national UHC agenda. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Access to affordable family planning is an essential component of &nbsp;universal health coverage (UHC) as it is one of the most effective interventions that have shown to reduce maternal and under- mortality rates. For Zambia, to include Family Planning (FP) in the national health insurance package, solidifies government commitment towards improving maternal and child health&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1293,"featured_media":987529700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[118,135],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987521271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987529700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987521271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987521271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987521271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}