2025 UHC Day Champion
Harjyot Khosa
Regional External Relations Director for the International Planned Parenthood Federation, India
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Communities must be at the center of UHC. When women and young people can shape decisions about their health and access sexual and reproductive health and rights services without discrimination or financial barriers, we move closer to a just and inclusive system.
Harjyot is a feminist who has long been working on health and human rights of communities. She is actively involved in the civil society and community rights movement, across south Asia and pacific.
Her areas of interest and work include gender, sexual reproductive health rights, mental health, HIV and TB. She served as a CSO/community representative on the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator, a groundbreaking global collaboration to accelerate development, production and equitable access to COVID-19 tests, treatments and vaccines. She is currently serving as an advisory group member on Civil Society Alliance for Human Rights in the Pandemic Treaty and CSEM for UHC2030; CSO representative on the Scientific Working Group for the Global Pandemic Preparedness and Response Scheme (I-DAIR); Co-Chair, Global Advocacy & Communications Working Group, Self-Care Trailblazer Group (SCTG).
Harjyot believes that achieving universal health coverage is impossible without integrating comprehensive Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Justice services and ensuring communities, women in all diversities and young people can access these services without facing financial hardship. Harjyot advocates and pushes for eliminating out-of-pocket expenses for these services, to prevent people from being pushed or pushed further into poverty, or forced to forgo care.
