According to the NHI Act 650, Ghana was to establish a national health insurance policy that 'ensures access to basic healthcare services to all residents' [ 17].
Many women across Asia still lack access to basic education, are left out of policy decisions affecting their families, and struggle to advance in their jobs.
Combining such a policy with better access to basic social services, including education and healthcare, would reduce the prevalence of parasitic infections and anemia and decrease the disease burden on these vulnerable remote communities, particularly among women and children.
AGEI was essentially based on a gender equity approach, which aimed at reducing gender discrimination and promoting social/economic self reliance of women through policies and programmes that increased access to basic education and training of girls.
Discriminatory laws and inequitable and outdated policies result in lower pay, lack of access to basic labor standards like paid family leave, unaffordable health care and frequent harassment, discrimination and violence.
Working towards free education for all is another valid policy option to ensure more children get access to basic schooling.
"The government should, with the support of the international community, develop a resettlement policy … with a clear timeline for exit, ensuring access to basic services and pegged to a job creation plan.
Whether it's promoting what should be universally welcomed initiatives like HIV prevention or providing Cubans with access to basic communications tools, we only impede our own goals by tying them to regime change policies like the Helms-Burton Act.
Although there are a number of laws and policies pertaining to people with disabilities, including their right to decent and productive work and access to basic services, most persons with disabilities are handicapped by social, economic, physical and political conditions.
Despite the commitment of governments to pursue pro-poor health policies and interventions vigorously, in sub-Saharan Africa the level of inequity in health status and access to basic health care interventions remains high.
