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Committed to championing women as decision makers and leaders, we signed a MoU with the Women in Global Health community and made multiple commitments to women’s empowerment and equality at the Generation Equality Forum. If health systems and services have weathered the storm of the previous two years, it’s in no small half due to the large sacrifices of the ladies who represent 70% of the health and social workforce. WHO’s Year of Health and Care Workers campaign has called for safeguarding them and investing in their work environments and training; the WHO Academy represents a significant investment in the latter space. Yet even before COVID-19, the world was falling in want of our target to see 1 billion more individuals benefiting from UHC, as half a billion folks have been pushed into excessive poverty because of payments they needed to make for health care. The scenario will solely be …