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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Epidemics and pandemics prevented
Bolstering early warning systems and countermeasures for emerging zoonotic threats.
The COVID-19 pandemic and other recent outbreaks of infectious diseases have demonstrated that steps currently being taken to prevent the occurrence and spread of infectious diseases of known and unknown origin remain insufficient, despite an intensification of efforts. The COVID-19 virus, like the Ebola virus, the Zika virus, the Middle East respiratory syndrome, the severe acute respiratory syndrome and HIV/AIDS, made the jump to humans from another species.
At the same time, we must recognize that no early warning system for a potential zoonotic spill-over event will be foolproof. We must build on the foundations of the research and development blueprint to strengthen our readiness to rapidly scale up and coordinate the research, development and manufacture of countermeasures in the face of an emergent threat.
This means laying the groundwork now, reaching consensus and putting into place protocols for everything from sample-sharing and standards for genomic sequence pooling to clinical data-sharing and trials, regulatory pathways and operational research.
