Universal health with equity, leaving no one behind

In September 1978, world leaders at the first International Conference on Primary Health Care signed a historic agreement aimed at achieving the right to health, considering that the enjoyment of the highest standard of health is a fundamental right of all people and one of society’s most important goals. The Alma-Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care, as this milestone document is known, has been essential in guiding the development health systems in most countries of the world over the past four decades.