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On UHC day in December 2024, Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean nations reconfirm their commitment to access for their population to quality health services, without financial hardship. Achieving this goal is a particular challenge for small island developing states, and compounded by geographic isolation, limited economies of scale, and disproportionate exposure to natural disasters and climate change. <\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”TO BE EDITED – TEXT OF THE NEWS ” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||1em||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean nations celebrated the international day for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) on December 12th<\/sup>, 2024.\u00a0 Access to quality health services, without financial hardship is a particular challenge for small island developing states, as they are particularly vulnerable due to geographic isolation and limited economies of scale.\u00a0 Furthermore, they are particularly exposed to natural disasters and extreme weather events (worsened by climate change). Investment in building a resilient health system is a must for achieving UHC especially as countries continue to face severe hurricanes and climate-related emergencies.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”TO BE EDITED – TEXT OF THE NEWS ” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Barbados and Eastern Caribbean countries tackle health inequities by expanding social protection programs, improving maternal and child health services, and addressing gender disparities in health access. As well as being fundamental to the population\u2019s health and wellbeing, UHC is an important part of overall economic growth and development according to Mr Springett, UN Resident Coordinator.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On UHC day in December 2024, Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean nations reconfirm their commitment to access for their population to quality health services, without financial hardship. Achieving this goal is a particular challenge for small island developing states, and compounded by geographic isolation, limited economies of scale, and disproportionate exposure to natural disasters and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":987754163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3046,135],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987754159"}],"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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987754159"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987754159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987754167,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987754159\/revisions\/987754167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987754163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987754159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987754159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987754159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}