Sexual and Reproductive Health is Essential to Achieving Universal Health Coverage: Engaging Stakeholders to Realize Health Equity Worldwide

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Universal health coverage (UHC) goals cannot be achieved unless countries fully integrate sexual and reproductive health (SRH) into their broader health systems. Successful integration relies on the full participation of all relevant SRH stakeholders—especially women, girls, and other marginalized groups—in priority-setting, planning, and implementation. However, there has been little focus on the extent and impact of meaningful participation in SRH services on the global stage.

Please join the Wilson Center’s Maternal Health Initiative, in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research, for a roundtable discussion highlighting strategies to ensure progress towards access to comprehensive and quality SRH services.The panel will include both policymakers and representatives from civil society and will discuss mechanisms for integrating diverse voices in the SRH-UHC agenda, prioritizing health benefit packages and program implementation, and examples of successful service engagement and integration at the national level.

Send questions for our panelists during the event to mhi@wilsoncenter.org. Follow the conversation on Twitter at @Wilson_MHI, @UNFPA, and @WHO and on Instagram at @MaternalHealthInitiative using the hashtags #SRHinUHC and #MHDialogue. Find more coverage of these issues on our blog, NewSecurityBeat.org/Dot-Mom.