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On Wednesday April 29, 2020, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete Foundation, and The Access Challenge are launching a campaign called One by One: Target COVID-19. The Campaign will support efforts by the African Union and its COVID-19 Fund by advocating for increased financing for Africa CDC to raise its capacity for securing essential diagnostics and medical supplies needed for COVID-19 response in Africa.

The One by One: Target 2030 Campaign is a multi-level advocacy platform led by H.E. Jakaya M. Kikwete to secure and sustain top-level African political commitment for UHC. The mission is to help drive the collaborative commitment of 54 African governments to meaningful progress on UHC.

In 2015, the international community came together and committed to providing high-quality affordable health care to all 7.7 billion of the world's people. To achieve that goal, policymakers should focus on expanding primary care, sustaining political will, and harnessing the power of data.

Over the past six and a half years, we’ve witnessed an extraordinary international endeavour to stamp out Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)

We believe that universal health coverage (UHC) is key to unlocking progress toward many of the Sustainable Development Goals – for example on economic growth, fighting poverty and advancing equalities, especially gender. Health is a precondition, indicator and an outcome of development; we simply cannot achieve any of these goals without accelerating progress toward universal health coverage.

Bringing Together World Leaders and Global Health Experts in an Effort to Achieve Universal Health Coverage

Together with Former Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, The Access Challenge Launches a High-Level Policy Campaign Centered on African Union and President-to-President Engagement.