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Six partners on a global journey to celebrate excellence in public health [1]

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Date: 2024-06 

The Award was established in 2019 upon the initiative of the Ministers of Health of Member States of the WHO African Region, in the context of the commemoration of the 100-year anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s birth and his exceptional life and contributions to the world. At the Seventy-first World Health Assembly in May 2018, the Ministers noted, “We concurrently celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the creation of the World Health Organization, whose mandate is to achieve health coverage for all, but also the fortieth anniversary of the Alma Ata Declaration on Primary Healthcare, which has been fully focused on local communities essential to universal health coverage. This echoes the values and principles for which Nelson Mandela fought and lived.” The Award recognizes Nelson Mandela’s exceptional role in the promotion and protection of human rights in the global fight against HIV, AIDS and TB, including stigma and discrimination associated with these diseases. He also played a key role in promoting universal access to health care with great vision, in line with the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and the African Union agenda 2016–2030 to achieve health goals. Nelson Mandela said, “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being for himself and for his family, including food, clothing, housing, medical health care, and necessary social services and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowed, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.” HE Mr Mxolisi Nkosi, Ambassador of South Africa to the United Nations and other organizations in Geneva, said in May 2024 at the Health Assembly, “May this award continue to inspire your work as well as others in the effort to follow the path to ensuring health for all and in promoting the social equity ideals that Nelson Mandela represented.”

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