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
Explore the progress
Strengthened leadership, governance and advocacy for health
Harnessing collective action for health security and Sustainable Development Goals amidst pandemic challenges.
The lesson of the COVID-19 pandemic is very clear. The world needs WHO to provide leadership and coordinate efforts at global, regional and country levels in order to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable. The pandemic has underlined the need for global solidarity since no single country acting alone can successfully address the challenges and manage the risks that the world is facing in the area of health due to their global nature and the interconnectedness of today’s world.
Progress to achieve the health-related targets of the Sustainable Development Goals was too slow before the COVID-19 crisis and countries have been thrown even further off track by the pandemic. The pandemic has shown that health is not only a right and a goal in itself, but also a precondition to achieve health security and most of the Sustainable Development Goals.
