Access to Healthcare means obtaining timely health treatment to achieve the best health outcomes. More than half of the world's population lacked access to essential health services even before the COVID-19 pandemic. Many must travel long distances to reach a health facility.
5 million deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage
Achieve health equity, improve quality of life, enhance life expectancy
51-53% of people with disabilities cannot afford healthcare
Reducing unnecessary disability and premature death
High level of health disparities in the society
Preventing and managing diseases
My Rights, My Voice (MRMV) experience shows how setting up groups for young people – particularly young women –and empowering them to know and claim their rights, can enable
them to advocate in innovative and effective ways. Their first initiatives that made real changes locally were about the right to health and maternal health.
cs-mrmv-from-policy-to-practice-150915-en.pdfAs of 2011, about 16,350 BnB Outlets have been established in the Philippines —giving access to affordable essential drugs to over 21 million people.
BnBs were able to reduce the price of essential drugs by 64%, a significant impact when medicines account for almost half of the medical out-of-pocket expenses of households.
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Information leaflets for the closest health care centres to vulnerable people, as well as giving instruction how to get free access to those
Advocacy campaign for free health insurance to vulnerable families
