UN General Assembly
2013

health coverage — “UHC — on the occasion of TICAD V. To address health issues in the African region, we have readied $500 million and are at present concentrating on setting up training for 120,000 health and medical services providers. With regard to medical care for all, there can be no doubt that the people who give the human touch to the three letters in “UHC” are, in concrete terms, people like Ms. Sato, who without hesitation go into local communities. The second person I would like to introduce is Ms. Nilufa Yeasmin, a young Bangladeshi woman and the mother of two. Her professional title is “Poly-Glu Lady”. Poly-Glu is a made-in-Japan water purifier derived from a food that can be found in Japan in great abundance. One simply adds it to turbid water. Poly-Glu acts as an adsorbent, adhering to excess substances in the water, and then falls to the bottom as a precipitate, leaving the water clear. It is necessary to teach people how to use it correctly at the outset, and Ms. Yeasmin