Ota Martin Okechukwu C, Kirigia Doris Gatwiri, Asamoah-Odei Emil, Drameh-Avognon Pamela Suzanne, Olu Olushayo, Malecela Mwelecele Ntuli, Cabore Joseph Waogodo, Moeti Matshidiso Rebecca
1WHO Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Congo.
2Consultant, Regional Director's Office, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Congo.
BMC Proc. 2018 Jul 3;12(Suppl 7):8. doi: 10.1186/s12919-018-0104-2. eCollection 2018.
Universal Health Coverage (UHC)is central to the health Sustainable Development Goals(SDG). Working towards UHC is a powerful mechanism for achieving the right to health and promoting human development which is a priority area of focus for the World Health Organization WHO. As a result, the WHO Regional Office for Africa convened the first-ever Africa Health Forum, co- hosted by the government of Rwanda in Kigali in June 2017 with the theme The Forum aimed to strengthen and forge new partnerships, align priorities and galvanize commitment to advance the health agenda in Africa in order to attain UHC and the SDGs. This paper reports the proceedings and conclusions of the forum.
The forum was attended by over 800 participants. It employed moderated panel and public discussions, and side events with political leaders, policy makers and technicians from ministries of health and finance, United Nations agencies, the private sector, the academia, philanthropic foundations, youth, women and non-governmental organizations drawn from within and outside the Region.
The commitment to achieve UHC was a collective expression of the belief that all people should have access to the health services they need without risk of financial hardship. The attainment of UHC will require a significant paradigm shift, including development of new partnerships especially public-private partnerships in selected areas with limited government resources, intersectoral collaboration to engage in interventions that affect health but are outside the purview of the ministries in charge of health and identification of public health issues where knowledge gaps exist as research priorities. The deliberations of the Forum culminated into a which pledged a renewed determination for Member States, in partnership with the private Sector, WHO, other UN Agencies and partners to support the attainment of the SDGs and UHC. There was agreement that immediate action was required to implement the call-to-action, and that the African Regional Office of WHO should develop a plan to rapidly operationalize the outcomes of the meeting.
全民健康覆盖（UHC）是健康可持续发展目标（SDG）的核心。努力实现全民健康覆盖是实现健康权和促进人类发展的有力机制，而这是世界卫生组织（WHO）重点关注的优先领域。因此，WHO非洲区域办事处于2017年6月在基加利召开了首届非洲健康论坛，由卢旺达政府共同主办，主题为 该论坛旨在加强并建立新的伙伴关系，调整优先事项，并激发各方承诺以推进非洲的健康议程，从而实现全民健康覆盖和可持续发展目标。本文报告了该论坛的会议进程和结论。
800多名与会者参加了该论坛。论坛采用了主持小组讨论和公开讨论的形式，还举办了会外活动，邀请了来自该区域内外的政治领导人、政策制定者以及卫生部和财政部的技术人员、联合国机构、私营部门、学术界、慈善基金会、青年、妇女和非政府组织。
实现全民健康覆盖的承诺是一种集体信念表达，即所有人都应能够获得所需的卫生服务，而不会面临经济困难风险。实现全民健康覆盖需要重大的范式转变，包括建立新的伙伴关系，特别是在政府资源有限的特定领域发展公私伙伴关系；开展部门间协作，以参与那些影响健康但不在卫生主管部门职权范围内的干预措施；将存在知识差距的公共卫生问题确定为研究重点。论坛的审议最终形成了一项 ，承诺成员国与私营部门、WHO、其他联合国机构及合作伙伴重新下定决心，支持实现可持续发展目标和全民健康覆盖。各方一致认为需要立即采取行动来落实行动呼吁，并且WHO非洲区域办事处应制定一项计划，迅速将会议成果付诸实施。
