It is now 30 years since the 1978 Alma-Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care (PHC). But the durability of old challenges such as maternal and child deaths and emergence of new ones such as HIV and ...

Forty years ago, in the heart of Soviet Central Asia, the world made a groundbreaking commitment to health. The Alma Ata Declaration set the stage for global health as we know it today. It reaffirmed ...

In September 1978, the international community adopted the Declaration of Alma-Ata, one of the most important global agreements ever reached in the effort to achieve universal health coverage.