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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Health emergencies rapidly detected and responded to
Enhancing detection and surveillance capacities for swift management of health emergencies.
The rapid detection, verification, assessment, management and communication of health emergencies is essential to save lives and recover from health emergencies.
WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme investigates alerts and verifies public health events from a diverse and large number of sources for all health hazards and employs systematic processes, public health expertise and networks and powerful new technologies to translate this data into public health intelligence. WHO’s role in public health intelligence extends beyond the initial detection and validation of signals to the continuous monitoring of emergencies, as they and the risks that they pose evolve over time.
One of the key challenges and opportunities to improve the timelines of event detection is the strengthening of national surveillance capacities, in line with the recommendations of the Review Committee on the Functioning of the International Health Regulations (2005) during the COVID-19 Response, as part of a broader strengthening of health emergency preparedness and readiness capacity.
