The Lancet
Apr 04, 2015 Volume 385 Number 9975 p1261-1364 e25-e37
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

Editorial
China-Africa Health Collaboration
The Lancet
Summary
The 5th International Roundtable on China-Africa Health Collaboration: Contributing to Universal Health Coverage (UHC), Expanding Access to Essential Medicines, convened by Tsinghua University and the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Medicines and Health Products, took place in Beijing last week (March 26–28). The roundtable was attended by 350 Chinese, African, and international health delegates, including Chinese drug companies. The roundtable endorsed the Beijing Policy Recommendations 2015—calling for collaboration to reflect local country priorities, enhanced production and access to new health commodities, increased accountability, and investments in research, development, and health financing.

Comment
Achieving universal health coverage is a moral imperative
Carissa F Etienne
Published Online: 15 October 2014
Summary
In the past few decades, important policies and strategic initiatives in health and development have been embraced by Latin America, with the active participation and support of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), WHO, and other partners. As democratic processes in the region are consolidated, with increasing decentralisation and greater social inclusion in decision making, there is an increasingly large and structured social demand for equity in access to health care, consistent with the principles of the WHO Constitution of 1948: “the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being…”.

Towards universal health coverage: applying a gender lens
Michelle Bachelet
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Human-rights-based approaches to health in Latin America
Alicia Ely Yamin, Ariel Frisancho
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Health protection as a citizen’s right
Alicia Bárcena
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Latin America: priorities for universal health coverage
Jeanette Vega, Patricia Frenz
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Conditional cash transfers and health in Latin America
Simone Cecchini, Fábio Veras Soares
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The right to health: what model for Latin America?
Nila Heredia, Asa Cristina Laurell, Oscar Feo, José Noronha, Rafael González-Guzmán, Mauricio Torres-Tovar
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