“My Health, My Right” Marks This Year’s Theme, to support global health awareness and promote health equality.
Diseases, disasters, and conflicts cause death, pain, hunger, and psychological distress around the world, threatening the right to health of millions. Moreover, the fossil fuels burning is driving the climate crisis and taking away our right to breathe clean air, with air pollution claiming a life every 5 seconds.
According to WHO, at least 140 countries recognize health as a human right in their constitution. Yet countries are not passing and putting into practice laws to ensure their populations are entitled to access health services, underpinning the fact that more than half of the world’s population (at least 4.5 billion people) were not fully covered by essential health services.
This year’s theme was chosen to address these types of challenges and champion the right of everyone, everywhere to have access to quality health services and education, as well as safe drinking water, clean air, good nutrition, quality housing, decent working conditions, and freedom from discrimination.
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