On 25 March 2024, the WHO Youth Council represented by Kristina Almazidou offered a letter to Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General and to Mr Chungong, Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Secretary General, urging them to mobilize parliamentarians and reinvigorate motion in the direction of Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

The letter outlined the next key youth asks to parliamentarians to guard the basic proper to well being:

1. Champion political management for UHC: Ensure that everybody, in all places has entry to the well being providers they want, with out going through monetary hardship. This is an ethical crucial and a wise funding that may pay dividends within the type of a more healthy, extra productive inhabitants.

2. Adopt enabling legal guidelines and rules: Recognize the crucial hyperlink between well being and local weather change and be certain that well being concerns are central to local weather change methods. This contains constructing climate-resilient well being techniques and lowering greenhouse gasoline emissions within the well being care sector.

3. Invest in UHC: Prioritize main well being care – with a deal with in danger communities – as it may possibly ship 90% of important well being providers. With main well being care, our well being techniques could be higher ready to forestall and reply to well being emergencies due to adequate well being employees, lab and information capability, and primary providers that may extra quickly detect and reply to outbreaks whereas persevering with to ship important providers.

4. Strengthen the well being and care workforce: Invest within the training, employment, and retention of well being employees, together with by addressing current shortages, and guarantee respectable pay and dealing situations to make sure they’re geared up to ship high-quality well being care.

5. Institutionalize social participation in decision-making: Ensure the inclusion of younger folks within the drafting, implementation, and analysis of legal guidelines and insurance policies that have an effect on their well being and wellbeing. This is one of the simplest ways to make sure inclusive participation resulting in insurance policies that tackle our wants and issues and belief in public motion.

6. Increase transparency and accountability: Make information on UHC and the well being impacts of local weather change publicly out there. This will permit us to trace progress, enhance accountability, and strengthen reliable information sharing. 

The WHO Youth Council serves because the voice for greater than 50 million youth from 22 youth organizations, offering recommendation on world well being and different improvement points from a youth perspective.