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Responding to Covid-19: what are the main challenges for the Leave No One Behind agenda and how can the policy response be shaped to address these? (WP1797)
Event: Responding to Covid-19: what are the main challenges for the Leave No One Behind agenda and how can the policy response be shaped to address these? (WP1797)
30 June, 2020
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🤝 We bring people together.
Bringing together the right people led to free maternal and infant healthcare in Sierra Leone which, since its implementation has:
👉 Reduced infant mortality by a fifth in its first year of operation
👉 More than doubled the number of pregnant women taking anti-malarial precautions in four years
👉 Increased the proportion of children who turned one fully vaccinated from 2/5 to over 2/3 in four years
🔍To find out more...⤵️
In 2008, Sierra Leone was the worst place in the world to give birth, with the world's highest rate of infant and maternal mortality. User fees for health care was a major barrier to accessing health care.
At a meeting hosted at Wilton Park, Robert Yates - then Senior Health Advisor at the 🇬🇧 Department for International Development - highlighted the potential of free health services for pregnant women and children. A fellow participant, Sierra Leone's Minister for Health and Sanitation, invited Robert Yates to Sierra Leone to speak to senior health officials. Over the next 18 months, the Sierra Leone government worked with development agencies to remove fees for those accessing maternal and infant healthcare. The Free Healthcare Initiative, modelled on discussions at Wilton Park, was launched in April 2010 and has saved thousands of lives.
📋 To find out more and read the report from the Wilton Park conference 👇
www.wiltonpark.org.uk/event/wp950/
In the COVID-19 Era, Healthcare Should be Universal and Free
www.chathamhouse.org
Coronavirus is the ultimate example of why we need universal health coverage because, if anyone is left out, it threatens the health security of everyone.👏👏👏To all of those in the essential services keeping us safe from #coronavirus, from all of us in the Foreign Office around the 🌍 , thank you
#clapforcarers | #clapforourcarers | #thankyouNHS
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Lovely to see you Robin xx
Since 1951, we have called Steyning in West Sussex our home. Our guests have long appreciated Wilton Park’s rural setting at the historic Wiston House with the ancient village of Steyning nearby. Such surroundings have often been part of our success, providing important moments of calm while wrestling with some of the world’s most challenging problems.
Since the start of the lockdown, Wilton Park has become a virtual organisation and it will be many weeks until our guests are able to enjoy the surrounds of Wilton Park again. However, we are thrilled to be able to support organisations in our local area, especially our local care homes and hospices.
Over the coming weeks our chefs – working in shifts to maintain social distancing – will be in our kitchens, baking brownies, bread and cookies which will be delivered to some of those who need it the most. We have been part of this community for nearly 70 years and we are delighted to be supporting these organisations during these enormously challenging times.
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Well done! And your chefs make wonderful meals 🙏🏼
Fantastic, wonderful initiative.. Well done to you all.... Tony Franklin, Sam Jordan Barrow, Rob Parsons, Lewis House, Nicola Simonds x
Kudos! 😇 I miss Wiston House. Such a lovely place!
Well done, great work!
Amazing work 🙌
Cheers Dazman👊🏻
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