A nurse fills a syringe with a vaccination before administering an injection for seasonal flu at a subway station in Mexico City, January 29, 2014. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo
GENEVA (Reuters) - Governments must boost spending on primary health care by at least an additional 1 percent of their gross domestic product to widen coverage and stop impoverishing patients, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday.
Despite some progress, more people are having to pay out-of-pocket for often costly medicines and treatment, the U.N. agency said in a report compiled with the OECD and World Bank.
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