Toolkit for Campaigners

Campaign Theme

Click here for suggested tweets to get ready for UHC Day.

The need for #UniversalHealthCoverage is more visible now than ever before. We need #HealthForAll for an effective pandemic response, equitable recovery, & progress towards the #GlobalGoals. Do you agree? Show your support on #UHCDay this 12 December.

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Do you believe all people should have access to the health services they need without suffering financial hardship? Join the call this #UHCDay this 12 December! Join the call for leaders to invest in health systems that leave no one’s health behind. UHCDay.org

The goal: #UniversalHealthCoverage and health security.

The means: strengthening health systems globally.

The approach: #PrimaryHealthCare, as the best way to meet communities’ needs and involve them in decision-making.

Join the movement: UHCDay.org #UHCDay

UHC Day 2024 Theme:
Health: it's on the government!

When populations are healthy, communities and economies prosper. That is why this Universal Health Coverage Day 2024 we call on decision makers around the world to protect people from financial hardship when accessing health services.

It is the responsibility of governments to ensure that healthcare is always affordable or free, particularly for the poorest and most vulnerable among us.

Join us in starting discussions and taking action to make financial protection and #HealthForAll a reality.

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It’s #UHCDay! Today we remind governments that no-one should have to choose between healthcare and putting food on the table. Health is a human right! Invest in financial protection for #UniversalHealthCoverage today. universalhealthcoverageday.org

Health is a human right! Investing in #UniversalHealthCoverage increases health and well-being while improving #equity and social cohesion. This #UHCDay we remind governments that financial protection for health is their responsibility! Get involved: https://universalhealthcoverageday.org/toolkit/

For too many people around the world, the cost of accessing healthcare and medicines is too high.

Governments, this #UHCDay, we call on you to make good on your promises and protect people from impoverishing health spending.

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What is #UniversalHealthCoverage?

The idea that *all* people can obtain the quality health services they need, wherever they are in the world, without suffering financial hardship. #UHCDay #HealthforAll UHCDay.org

The uneven distribution of #COVID19 vaccines worldwide is a lesson about what happens when we don’t prioritize #HealthForAll.

This #UHCDay, let’s call on world leaders to #LeaveNoOneBehind. It’s time to balance the scales. UHCDay.org

A health system that leaves the most vulnerable groups at risk is a health system in crisis.

We must prioritize the needs of those most likely to be left behind to build systems that work for all. #HealthForAll #UHCDay UHCDay.org

The #COVID19 pandemic and response has made it clearer than ever that health coverage within and across countries is deeply uneven. This is unacceptable.

Join in this #UHCDay to stand for equitable health systems that #LeaveNoOneBehind. UHCDay.org

#UniversalHealthCoverage is about ensuring everyone, everywhere has the care they need — for non-communicable diseases, sexual & reproductive health & more.

Achieving #HealthForAll means every person has a chance to thrive from birth throughout their entire lifetime. #UHCDay

The #COVID19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted women and girls, threatening years of progress in sexual & reproductive health, reproductive rights, education & more.

It’s time to center them in pandemic response & recovery to achieve #HealthForAll. #UHCDay

#COVID19 has reached nearly everyone. But health coverage still hasn’t.

It’s time for bold change. Will you join the call for #HealthforAll this #UHCDay?

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On this #UHCDay, let’s think critically about who shapes health systems: Who makes decisions? Who is consulted? Whose voice is missing?

To reach #HealthForAll, we must challenge power dynamics and balance the scales of inequity. UHCDay.org

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Advocacy Messages

Healthcare should never push people into poverty!

The cost of health services is the main reason people miss out on essential care and treatment. These costs can force families to choose between paying for medicines or a visit to the doctor and other necessities, such as food, housing and education. Health costs and illness should never push people into poverty!

Investing in universal health coverage and financial protection increases health and well-being while improving equity and social cohesion.

Everyone should have access to an affordable core package of essential health services, including quality medicines.

No-one should be pushed into poverty when accessing these services.

Governments – financial protection for health is on you! #UHCDay

Universal health coverage: it’s good for people AND the economy!

Too often, people delay or miss out on medical treatment due to health costs. This leads to more and longer-term sickness in populations, reducing worker participation and productivity rates and requiring longer-term care or welfare support in the long run.

Investing in universal health coverage benefits the national economy by improving health and well-being, increasing workforce participation and productivity, and building resilience in individuals, families and communities.

When populations are healthy, economies thrive!

Investing in #UHC boosts national economies by improving workforce health and well-being, increasing productivity, and building resilience in communities.

This #UHCDay, we call on governments to prioritize UHC and financial protection in their regular national budgets.

Key Asks

To protect everyone from financial hardship in accessing health care, we call on governments to:

Adopt and implement laws to protect people from impoverishing health costs.
Budget for an affordable package of essential health services.
Establish national public health schemes that cover health costs for the entire population and are financed by national taxes.
Minimize or remove user charges for those most in need, including people with low income or chronic conditions.
Make universal health coverage and financial protection for health a national priority!

Governments: financial protection for health is on you!

Investment in health should not depend on which political party is in power. Health concerns all of us. This #UHCDay, we urge all governments to make #UniversalHealthCoverage and financial protection a national priority.

Investing in #HealthForAll means protecting people, especially the most vulnerable among us, from impoverishing health costs and financial hardship caused by illness. Governments, it’s on you to adopt laws and budgets that guarantee the right to health for everyone, everywhere.

UHC Day 2021 Champion Graphics

Elizabeth Cousens, President, UN Foundation

Ambassador Enrique A. Manalo, Permanent Representative of the Philippines, United Nations

Ambassador T.S. Tirumurti, Permanent Representative of India, United Nations

Berry Vrbanovic, Mayor, Kitchener, Canada

Carola Gunnarsson, Mayor, Sala, Sweden

Rohey Malick Lowe, Mayor, Banjul, The Gambia

Li Mingyuan, Mayor, Xi’an, China; Co-President, UCLG

Ada Colau, Mayor, Barcelona, Spain; Special Envoy for the New Urban Agenda, UCLG

Khuat Thi Hai Oanh, Executive Director, Center for Supporting Community Development Initiatives (SCDI), Vietnam

Peter Sands, Executive Director, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Dr. Akihito Watabe, Task Lead (UHC Day Coordination Group) UHC2030

Sarah Kline, Founder and CEO, United for Global Mental Health

Gina Agiostratidou, Program Director, Helmsley Charitable Trust’s Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) Program, The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

Naveen Rao, Senior Vice President for Health, The Rockfeller Foundation

Madhukar Pai, Professor, McGill University

Professor Agnes Binagwaho, Vice Chancellor, University of Global Health Equity

Yacine Diop Djibo, Founder & Executive Director, Speak Up Africa

Dr. Jeff Markuns, Executive Director, Primary Health Care Performance Initiative

Lloyd Jose Nunag, Advisory Group Member, CSEM UHC2030

Delphine O, Ambassador for Gender Equality, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Eliana Monteforte, Director of Special Projects, Global Health Council

Amy Boldosser-Boesch, Senior Director, Health Policy, Advocacy & Engagement, Management Sciences for Health

Monica Geingos, First Lady of the Republic of Namibia, Office of the President, Republic of Namibia

Julia Tainijoki-Seyer, Senior Medical Advisor, World Medical Association

Maxwell Antwi, PharmAccess Foundation

Anamaria Bejar, Global Director of Advocacy, International Planned Parenthood Federation

Javier Hourcade Bellocq, Member, Community Based Organizations, UHC2030 Steering Committee / CSEM

Smitha Sadasivan, Member, Multiple Sclerosis Society of India – Chennai Chapter

Nupur Lalvani, Founder & Director, Blue Circle Diabetes Foundation

Sergiy Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the UN

H.E. Arrmanatha C. Nasir, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Indonesia to the UN

Rt. Hon. Helen Clark, Board Chair, PMNCH

Ibtihal Fadhil, President, Eastern Mediterranean NCD Alliance

Dr. Abdourahmane Diallo, CEO, RBM Partnership to End Malaria

Maaya Wakasugi, Calligraphy Artist

Juan Ramón de la Fuente, Amabassador, Permanent Representative, Mission of Mexico to the UN

Carolina Cosse, Mayor, Montevideo, Uruguay

Tell Your Country: Leave No One’s Health Behind

Click the dropdown menu for a tweet that can be shared to tell your country leaders to leave no one’s health behind. Download the accompanying graphic to share along with the below tweet or customize with your own message.

This #UHCDay, I call on Afghanistan 🇦🇫 Albania 🇦🇱 Algeria 🇩🇿 Andorra 🇦🇩 Angola 🇦🇴 Antigua and Barbuda 🇦🇬 Argentina 🇦🇷 Armenia 🇦🇲 Australia 🇦🇺 Austria 🇦🇹 Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 the Bahamas 🇧🇸 Bahrain 🇧🇭 Bangladesh 🇧🇩 Barbados 🇧🇧 Belarus 🇧🇾 Belgium 🇧🇪 Belize 🇧🇿 Benin 🇧🇯 Bhutan 🇧🇹 Bolivia 🇧🇴 Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦 Botswana 🇧🇼 Brazil 🇧🇷 Brunei 🇧🇳 Bulgaria 🇧🇬 Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 Burundi 🇧🇮 Cabo Verde 🇨🇻 Cambodia 🇰🇭 Cameroon 🇨🇲 Canada 🇨🇦 Central African Republic 🇨🇫 Chad 🇹🇩 Chile 🇨🇱 China 🇨🇳 Colombia 🇨🇴 the Comoros 🇰🇲 the Democratic Republic of the Congo 🇨🇩 Congo 🇨🇬 Costa Rica 🇨🇷 Côte d’Ivoire 🇨🇮 Croatia 🇭🇷 Cuba 🇨🇺 Cyprus 🇨🇾 Czechia 🇨🇿 Denmark 🇩🇰 Djibouti 🇩🇯 Dominica 🇩🇲 the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 Ecuador 🇪🇨 Egypt 🇪🇬 El Salvador 🇸🇻 Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶 Eritrea 🇪🇷 Estonia 🇪🇪 Eswatini 🇸🇿 Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Fiji 🇫🇯 Finland 🇫🇮 France 🇫🇷 Gabon 🇬🇦 Gambia 🇬🇲 Georgia 🇬🇪 Germany 🇩🇪 Ghana 🇬🇭 Greece 🇬🇷 Grenada 🇬🇩 Guatemala 🇬🇹 Guinea 🇬🇳 Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼 Guyana 🇬🇾 Haiti 🇭🇹 Honduras 🇭🇳 Hungary 🇭🇺 Iceland 🇮🇸 India 🇮🇳 Indonesia 🇮🇩 Iran 🇮🇷 Iraq 🇮🇶 Ireland 🇮🇪 Israel 🇮🇱 Italy 🇮🇹 Jamaica 🇯🇲 Japan 🇯🇵 Jordan 🇯🇴 Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 Kenya 🇰🇪 Kiribati 🇰🇮 Kuwait 🇰🇼 Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 Laos 🇱🇦 Latvia 🇱🇻 Lebanon 🇱🇧 Lesotho 🇱🇸 Liberia 🇱🇷 Libya 🇱🇾 Liechtenstein 🇱🇮 Lithuania 🇱🇹 Luxembourg 🇱🇺 Madagascar 🇲🇬 Malawi 🇲🇼 Malaysia 🇲🇾 the Maldives 🇲🇻 Mali 🇲🇱 Malta 🇲🇹 the Marshall Islands 🇲🇭 Mauritania 🇲🇷 Mauritius 🇲🇺 Mexico 🇲🇽 Micronesia 🇫🇲 Moldova 🇲🇩 Monaco 🇲🇨 Mongolia 🇲🇳 Montenegro 🇲🇪 Morocco 🇲🇦 Mozambique 🇲🇿 Myanmar 🇲🇲 Namibia 🇳🇦 Nauru 🇳🇷 Nepal 🇳🇵 the Netherlands 🇳🇱 New Zealand 🇳🇿 Nicaragua 🇳🇮 Niger 🇳🇪 Nigeria 🇳🇬 North Korea 🇰🇵 North Macedonia 🇲🇰 Norway 🇳🇴 Oman 🇴🇲 Pakistan 🇵🇰 Palau 🇵🇼 Panama 🇵🇦 Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 Paraguay 🇵🇾 Peru 🇵🇪 the Philippines 🇵🇭 Poland 🇵🇱 Portugal 🇵🇹 Qatar 🇶🇦 Romania 🇷🇴 Russia 🇷🇺 Rwanda 🇷🇼 St. Kitts and Nevis 🇰🇳 St. Lucia 🇱🇨 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 🇻🇨 Samoa 🇼🇸 San Marino 🇸🇲 São Tomé and Príncipe 🇸🇹 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 Senegal 🇸🇳 Serbia 🇷🇸 Seychelles 🇸🇨 Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 Singapore 🇸🇬 Slovakia 🇸🇰 Slovenia 🇸🇮 Solomon Islands 🇸🇧 Somalia 🇸🇴 South Africa 🇿🇦 South Korea 🇰🇷 South Sudan 🇸🇸 Spain 🇪🇸 Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 the Sudan 🇸🇩 Suriname 🇸🇷 Sweden 🇸🇪 Switzerland 🇨🇭 Syria 🇸🇾 Tajikistan 🇹🇯 Tanzania 🇹🇿 Thailand 🇹🇭 Timor-Leste 🇹🇱 Togo 🇹🇬 Tonga 🇹🇴 Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 Tunisia 🇹🇳 Turkey 🇹🇷 Turkmenistan 🇹🇲 Tuvalu 🇹🇻 Uganda 🇺🇬 Ukraine 🇺🇦 the United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪 the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 the United States 🇺🇸 Uruguay 🇺🇾 Uzbekistan 🇺🇿 Vanuatu 🇻🇺 Venezuela 🇻🇪 Vietnam 🇻🇳 Yemen 🇾🇪 Zambia 🇿🇲 Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 to invest in health systems that leave no one's health behind. #HealthForAll.

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Champion Graphics

Customize your UHC Day

Add the UHC Day umbrella to your own campaign materials to stand in solidarity with the global movement.

UHC Day logos are copyright-free and designed for public use. As long as the logo is used in accordance with the UHC umbrella brand guidelines, it does not require approval.

UHC Day graphic – your way

Make your own UHC Day graphic!

Use the template and suite of icons to customize your UHC Day 2024 graphics and messaging.

Share your message

Each year on 12 December, advocates from around the world share their messages of support and rallying cries for health for all. It’s time to have your say! Add your name to the list of supporters and tell the world why you’re speaking out for financial protection for health this UHC Day.

Download the quote card template, add your photo, name and quote and share on your social media pages or website. Don’t forget to tag #UHCDay!

Mobilize your government

Writing to your decision makers and government officials is an effective way to help accelerate action on UHC and share our views with those who make daily decisions on our lives. We have the power and responsibility to influence them and take an active role in shaping our country and communities.

Make the case for universal health coverage. Write an advocacy letter to your decision makers today!