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The International Conference on Primary Health Care held in Alma-Ata, USSR in 1978. (Photo: Llebllo~commonswiki).

The Declaration of Alma-Ata names healthcare a universal right.

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The International Conference on Primary Health Care held in Alma-Ata, USSR in 1978. (Photo: Llebllo~commonswiki).

This declaration by the World Health Organization (WHO) names healthcare as a universal right, and health as: “a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."