{"id":185954,"date":"2024-12-05T13:05:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T11:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/africa-cdc-and-au-launch-lusaka-agenda-to-advance-universal-health-coverage\/"},"modified":"2024-12-05T13:05:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T11:05:04","slug":"africa-cdc-and-au-launch-lusaka-agenda-to-advance-universal-health-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/africa-cdc-and-au-launch-lusaka-agenda-to-advance-universal-health-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa CDC and AU Launch Lusaka Agenda to Advance Universal Health Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), in collaboration with the African Union (AU), has unveiled the Lusaka Agenda, a bold initiative aimed at achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) across the continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">This groundbreaking blueprint focuses on strengthening primary healthcare systems, fostering locally funded and sustainable health solutions, and ensuring equitable access to quality care for all Africans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, the AU&#8217;s Champion&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412050126.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), in collaboration with the African Union (AU), has unveiled the Lusaka Agenda, a bold initiative aimed at achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) across the continent. This groundbreaking blueprint focuses on strengthening primary healthcare systems, fostering locally funded and sustainable health solutions, and ensuring equitable access [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":185955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[11688,258,256,5701,14113,6904,5731,5741,987,257,254,12369,881],"class_list":["post-185954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-advance","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agenda","tag-cdc","tag-coverage","tag-health","tag-launch","tag-lusaka","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-universal","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}