The importance of power and agency in a universal health coverage agenda for adolescent girls

Journal of Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters "Achieving the ambitious Universal Health Coverage (UHC) agenda requires challenging and changing entrenched gender and social norms, and structures of power, in order to reach across identities and towards the most vulnerable, marginalised and excluded. Since the September 2019 endorsement by UN member states of the UHC Political Declaration, we have seen calls for increased attention to adolescent health as a core element of UHC, and for a gender lens on UHC targets and goals. Adolescent girls exist at a troubled intersection of discriminations based on gender and age, which is exacerbated by other structural inequalities for all too many girls and vulnerable adolescents." (Photo: UN Women/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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