{"id":987524137,"date":"2013-08-26T03:33:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T02:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/news\/presidential-advisor-speaks-at-gic-uhc-forum-in-bonn-germany\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T11:09:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T10:09:53","slug":"presidential-advisor-speaks-at-gic-uhc-forum-in-bonn-germany","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/news\/presidential-advisor-speaks-at-gic-uhc-forum-in-bonn-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Advisor speaks at GIC UHC Forum in Bonn, Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 26 Aug 2013, <strong>Dr. Speciosa Wandira-Kazibwe<\/strong>, Presidential Advisor on Health and Population, Ministry of Health, Uganda gave a key note address in the <span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.health.bmz.de\/en\/events\/GIC-Forum-UHC\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">GIC Forum <\/span><\/a><\/span>on Health and Social Protection,\u00a0Universal Health Coverage: From Promise to Practice.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3321\" alt=\"2013_SWK_UHC_forum\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013_SWK_UHC_forum.jpg\" width=\"281\" height=\"167\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a forthright keynote address, Dr.\u00a0Speciosa Wandira-Kazibwe\u00a0said that she approaches UHC both as a medical person and as a politician. UHC was an election manifesto pledge in the last Ugandan elections, and the political will is there to implement UHC. \u201cEvery politician wants people to be healthy because presiding over pov\u00ader\u00adty is the worst thing\u2026 Politics is the key for UHC because that\u2019s where decisions are made about what gets spent where.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, she also criticised the medical mindsets that can be a block to implementation of the policy and the failure to look at the issue holistically. Medical personnel and health planners preferred resources to go towards health facilities and staff, rather than taking a broader view.<\/p>\n<p>UHC is im\u00adpor\u00adtant for de\u00advel\u00adop\u00adment, she said : \u201cDon\u2019t just tell politicians how many people are dying \u2013 tell them how many kilos of maize they are producing if they are healthy.\u201d Money is necessary for achieving UHC but not the only factor.\u00a0 \u201cWe need people to have ownership of the health system.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 26 Aug 2013, Dr. Speciosa Wandira-Kazibwe, Presidential Advisor on Health and Population, Ministry of Health, Uganda gave a key note address in the GIC Forum on Health and Social Protection,\u00a0Universal Health Coverage: From Promise to Practice. In a forthright keynote address, Dr.\u00a0Speciosa Wandira-Kazibwe\u00a0said that she approaches UHC both as a medical person and as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987524137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}