Executive Overview
Progress towards meeting the triple billion targets, a milestone to the Sustainable Development Goals
The world is off track to reach most of the triple billion targets and the health-related Sustainable Development Goals. However, with concrete concerted action to accelerate progress, a substantive subset of them could still be achieved.
Impact on the ground
How WHO is achieving impact where it matters most
- Improved access to quality essential health services irrespective of gender, age or disability status
- Countries enabled to provide high-quality, people-centred health services, based on primary health care strategies and comprehensive essential service packages
Working together
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Countries prepared for health emergencies
Urgent need to address gaps in national health emergency preparedness capacity highlighted by COVID-19 pandemic, calls for evolving financing and monitoring frameworks.
Despite substantive progress in health emergency preparedness and the implementation of the International Health Regulations (2005) monitoring and evaluation framework, there is an urgent need to better understand the gaps and weaknesses in the preparedness of national systems, including in the areas of governance, preparedness and dynamic readiness capacities at subnational and national levels. There is also an urgent need to translate that knowledge into action to better protect countries and communities against the impact of future public health crises.
The message from the COVID-19 pandemic is clear: countries are not prepared for health emergencies and the way the world funds and measures preparedness must evolve. Ultimately, breaking the cycle of panic and subsequent neglect that has previously characterized the world’s approach to health emergencies means addressing national and subnational gaps in preparedness capacity. To achieve this, the world must change the way it finances preparedness in order for the world to be protected from the next pandemic and other health emergency threats.
