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Aligning for Access: Family Planning, Health Workers, and Universal Health Coverage [1]

October 30, 2013
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{Photo by Warren Zelman.} [1]Photo by Warren Zelman.

This post also appeared on Gates Foundation's Impatient Optimists Blog [6] and on Frontline Health Workers Coalition's website [7].

In a week and a half, as a team of our colleagues arrive in Ethiopia for this year’s International Conference on Family Planning, others will already be in Brazil for the Third Global Forum on Human Resources for Health. This year’s HRH Forum addresses universal health coverage (UHC), a concept which continues to gain momentum as the focus of global health efforts from institutions like the World Bank and World Health Organization (WHO).

It’s symbolic that these two meetings are happening half a world apart: as movements around family planning, health workforce and UHC have advanced, there has been too little dialogue and collaboration across these communities.

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[1] https://www.msh.org/blog/2013/10/30/aligning-for-access-family-planning-health-workers-and-universal-health-coverage
[2] https://www.msh.org/blog/2013/10/30/aligning-for-access-family-planning-health-workers-and-universal-health-coverage#comments
[3] https://www.msh.org/blog-categories/health-systems-strengthening
[4] https://www.msh.org/blog-categories/universal-health-coverage
[5] https://www.msh.org/blog-categories/women-gender
[6] http://www.impatientoptimists.org/Posts/2013/11/Aligning-for-Access-Family-Planning-Health-Workers-and-Universal-Health-Coverage
[7] http://frontlinehealthworkers.org/aligning-for-access-family-planning-health-workers-and-universal-health-coverage/