Aid
World Health Day: 'Basic health-care services need to be accessible to all'
What the European Parliament has already done to help
The European Parliament has called for allocating aid funds to health and social services. It has succeeded in setting a 20% minimum of the EU's 2014-2020 Development Cooperation Instrument (DCI) for Latin America and Asia for basic social services, in particular health and education, and is calling for the same target to apply to aid to Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific countries.
…and what it will be doing
The Parliament has reaffirmed that health is a fundamental human right and has called for equitable, universal and sustainable health protection, with a special emphasis on preventing maternal, new-born and child deaths, as well as to help with diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
McAvan said the Parliament would continue to support good health services: “The European Parliament is working on this message of strengthening healthcare systems as a priority, calling for healthcare to be at the heart of the EU's approach to the global talks this year on replacing the Millennium Development Goals and how to finance them. We know from our own experience in Europe that a healthy population is the foundation for our societies and economies to be able to grow and prosper. It is the world's common challenge during this European Year for Development to work to make universal health coverage a reality."
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