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Universal Health Coverage plays a key role in ensuring widespread access to cardiovascular health services for all.<\/p>\n<p>Essential Public Health Functions serve as a foundation for health systems capable of achieving universal health coverage. Nonetheless, such systems require (1) sustainable financing, (2) empowered institutions, (3) a well-trained health workforce, (4) strengthened primary health care, and (5) robust cross-sector collaborations.<\/p>\n<p>WHF urges governments to adopt the proposed resolution and implement, in partnership with civil society organizations, the eleven EPHFs to uphold the right to the highest attainable standard of health.<\/p>\n<p>We further call on Member States to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Accelerate progress towards UHC through robust and well-financed PHC systems that ensure accessibility, affordability, quality, and equity;<\/li>\n<li>Expand UHC to provide comprehensive care, including prevention, diagnostics, treatment, and rehabilitation, for cardiovascular disease and its associated risk factors;<\/li>\n<li>Integrate evidence-based and cost-effective cardiovascular interventions into national UHC benefit packages, drawing from Appendix 3 of the WHO Global NCD Action Plan;<\/li>\n<li>Implement the <em>HEARTS in the Americas<\/em> initiative to provide a standardized model of care for cardiovascular risk management;<\/li>\n<li>Develop or strengthen National Cardiovascular Health Plans to secure sustainable funding for and wider access to cardiovascular health services across the continuum of care; and<\/li>\n<li>Engage civil society organizations, including people with lived experience, in cardiovascular health policies and establish mechanisms for community participation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This statement was delivered by Ms. Fernanda de Carvalho, our Advocacy Committee member for PAHO, at the Seventy-Sixth Session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Americas SEVENTY-SIXTH SESSION OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE AMERICAS AGENDA ITEM 4.6 Honourable Chair, Distinguished Delegates, The World Heart Federation commends the World Health Organization and its 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