To ensure that global health priorities and frameworks meet everyone’s needs, it’s crucial to prioritize comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services and reproductive rights, especially for adolescent girls. Universal health coverage (UHC) is a key focus for the global health community. UHC means everyone, no matter who they are or where they’re from, has the right to get the healthcare they need throughout their life without it costing more than they can afford. Women Deliver focuses its advocacy efforts on UHC to ensure girls’ and women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are not neglected.
To achieve UHC, we must address the health needs of everyone, without exception. This means incorporating SRHR into healthcare services, ensuring every person can make choices about their bodies and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) without facing discrimination, stigma, violence, or coercion. SRHR are essential to realizing the right to health for girls, women, and gender-diverse people, and UHC is crucial for universal access to comprehensive SRHR services and the overall health and well-being of all people.
SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS ARE NONNEGOTIABLE IN ACHIEVING HEALTH FOR ALL. ACHIEVING UHC REQUIRES MAKING THE FULL SUITE OF HEALTHCARE SERVICES AVAILABLE AND AFFORDABLE FOR EVERYONE, INCLUDING:
- Comprehensive sexuality education
- Contraceptive services
- Maternal and newborn care
- Treatment of HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections
- Safe abortion care
- Gender-based violence support
- Infertility treatments
- Cancer care
- Sexual health and well-being
- Adolescent and youth-friendly SRH services
Women Deliver’s Impact on Universal Health Care
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Individual
Arush Lal
Women Deliver Young Leader Alum Arush Lal is a Board Member and former Vice Chair for Women in Global Health, and serves as a Commissioner on the Chatham House Commission for Universal Health.
In 2023, Women Deliver provided Arush with financial support and registration to attend the 76th World Health Assembly in Geneva, where he worked with policy makers to advance gender equality in UHC through WHA resolutions.
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Collective Action
The Alliance for Gender Equality and UHC serves as a dynamic space for collaboration and coordinated advocacy of over 165 organizations
representing 58 countries advocating for gender-responsive universal health coverage (UHC) in policies, programs, and dialogue. As co-founder and co-convener, Women Deliver strategically focuses on the Alliance to drive collaboration and advocacy for gender-responsive UHC, including advancing SRH services and sexual and reproductive rights for adolescent girls.
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Global Spaces
Women Deliver aims to influence the World Health Assembly (WHA), which meets annually, to include SRH services and sexual and reproductive rights,
with a particular focus on adolescent girls who are often overlooked in World Health Assembly resolutions. Women Deliver provides technical expertise and consultation on SRHR, UHC, and gender equality across WHO’s work. This allows us to bring the expertise and priorities of traditionally ignored voices into WHO spaces.
Arush Lal
Women Deliver Young Leader Alum Arush Lal is a Board Member and former Vice Chair for Women in Global Health, and serves as a Commissioner on the Chatham House Commission for Universal Health.
In 2023, Women Deliver provided Arush with financial support and registration to attend the 76th World Health Assembly in Geneva, where he worked with policy makers to advance gender equality in UHC through WHA resolutions.
The Alliance for Gender Equality and UHC serves as a dynamic space for collaboration and coordinated advocacy of over 165 organizations
representing 58 countries advocating for gender-responsive universal health coverage (UHC) in policies, programs, and dialogue. As co-founder and co-convener, Women Deliver strategically focuses on the Alliance to drive collaboration and advocacy for gender-responsive UHC, including advancing SRH services and sexual and reproductive rights for adolescent girls.
Women Deliver aims to influence the World Health Assembly (WHA), which meets annually, to include SRH services and sexual and reproductive rights,
with a particular focus on adolescent girls who are often overlooked in World Health Assembly resolutions. Women Deliver provides technical expertise and consultation on SRHR, UHC, and gender equality across WHO’s work. This allows us to bring the expertise and priorities of traditionally ignored voices into WHO spaces.
