World Health Day 2021 Why we must seize the moment to advance health equity and achieve universal health coverage Photo: Collected This World Health Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) is highlighting the opportunity we have to build a fairer and healthier post-Covid-19 world. For well over a year now, marginalised and disenfranchised communities across the world and in the South-East Asia Region have borne the brunt of the Covid-19 pandemic. In countries rich and poor, socioeconomic, political, educational and geographic factors, among others, have facilitated the spread of the SARS-CoV2 virus, impacting health outcomes and compounding inequalities. In our unequal world, preventable social and economic inequities continue to impede the right of everyone, everywhere, to achieve the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health—an injustice that we must not accept.