Tracking universal health coverage - 2021 Global monitoring report | Conference edition

This report reveals that pre-pandemic, gains in service coverage were substantial and driven by a massive scaling up of interventions to tackle  communicable  diseases. And  while impoverishing health spending has  decreased  in recent years, the number of people impoverished or further impoverished by out of pocket health spending has remained unacceptably high. Strengthening  health systems based on  strong primary  health care  (PHC) is crucial to building back better  and accelerating  progress towards UHC and health security.