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Editorial
. 2024 Jan 2;13(1):1.
doi: 10.1186/s40249-023-01169-x.

Evidence-based universal health coverage interventions delivery in infectious disease of poverty elimination and eradication

Ernest Tambo  1   2   3 , Chidiebere E Ugwu  4 , Amberbir Alemayehu  5 , Anil Krishna  6 , Agnes Binagwaho  6
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Editorial

Evidence-based universal health coverage interventions delivery in infectious disease of poverty elimination and eradication

Ernest Tambo et al. Infect Dis Poverty. .

Abstract

The recent 78th United Natiions General Assembly (UNGA) declaration relaunched a new health priority and political commitment in accelerating Universal Health Coverage (UHC), adopted by the United Nations (UN) in 2015 and are intended to be met by 2030. At mid-way point of UHC implementation, we advocate for the much needed programmatic implementation research, evidence-based interventions (EBIs) policies and strategies leadership and management capacity building to enable robust, resilient and sustainable multi-sectoral partnerships, integrated coordination and governance mechanisms capabilities in accelerating UHC package mainly infectious diseases of poverty elimination and eradication agenda.

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Conflict of interest statement

Ernest Tambo is an editorial board member of the journal Infectious Diseases of Poverty. He was not involved in the peer-review or handling of the manuscript. The authors have no other competing interests to disclose.

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