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Caribbean and Central American senior health officials met in Washington D.C. in June 2023 to discuss health financing and explore ways to accelerate progress toward universal health coverage (UHC). Country leaders, health officials, policymakers, experts, and researchers shared regional insights and experiences on financing UHC.<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”TO BE EDITED – TEXT OF THE NEWS – BLOCK 1 ” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||1em||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Hosted by the World Bank and the Korean Partnership Facility, leaders, health officials, policymakers, experts, and researchers\u00a0from six countries from the Caribbean and Central America met in June 2023 \u00a0to exchange regional insights into health financing subsequent to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”TO BE EDITED – TEXT OF THE NEWS – BLOCK 2 ” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]Disruptions caused by the pandemic and natural disasters, present a challenge in achieving sustainable health financing and building progress toward UHC in the region. Representatives from Belize, Costa Rica, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines discussed UHC implementation and opportunities to learn from countries across the region. This meeting built upon a previous\u00a0UHC Accelerator Regional Knowledge Exchange event<\/a>, organized in 2022.[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Caribbean and Central American senior health officials met in Washington D.C. in June 2023 to discuss health financing and explore ways to accelerate progress toward universal health coverage (UHC). Country leaders, health officials, policymakers, experts, and researchers shared regional insights and experiences on financing UHC.Hosted by the World Bank and the Korean Partnership Facility, leaders,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":987772913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3046,3025],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987772910"}],"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=987772910"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987772910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987772919,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987772910\/revisions\/987772919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987772913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987772910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987772910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987772910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}