Despite progress, an estimated 4.9 million children died before their fifth birthday somewhere in the world, or 1 death every 6 seconds GENEVA/NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, 13 March 2024 – The number of...
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Levels & Trends in Child Mortality: Report 2023
This year’s United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME)’s findings represent a noteworthy moment in the ongoing campaign to end all preventable child deaths: The annual...
Strengthening primary health care with a community health strategy in Mozambique
Mozambique has embarked on a journey to strengthen its primary health care (PHC) services and community health initiatives, through a decentralized governance model since 2019. With support from a...
41 funders, partners endorse new guiding principles for financing climate and health solutions to protect health
Guiding Principles respond to low- and middle-income countries’ calls to mobilize finance to save lives now and in the future as the climate crisis threatens global health A consortium of...
Tracking universal health coverage: 2023 global monitoring report
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank have jointly published the 2023 Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Global Monitoring Report, revealing an alarming stagnation in the progress...
HRP Annual Report 2022
Overview For over 50 years, the UNDP-UNFPA-UNICEF-WHO-World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP) has been providing leadership on sexual...
Health Finance Coalition Announces First Close of AfricInvest Managed Transform Health Fund
Washington, DC, June 7, 2023 – The Health Finance Coalition today announced the close of the first $50 million for the pan-African Transform Health Fund (THF) managed by AfricInvest. With the first...
2023 Tracking SDG7 Report [EN/AR/RU/ZH]
Basic Energy Access Lags Amid Renewable Opportunities, New Report Shows Global energy access gap persists: 675 million people without electricity, 2.3 billion people reliant on harmful cooking fuels ...
Trends in maternal mortality 2000 to 2020: estimates by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group and UNDESA/Population Division [EN/AR/RU/ZH]
A woman dies every two minutes due to pregnancy or childbirth: UN agencies New data show major setbacks for maternal health in many parts of the world, highlighting stark disparities in healthcare...
Priorities for Health System Recovery in Ukraine - Joint Discussion Paper [EN/RU]
A joint discussion paper by WHO, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Ukraine, the World Bank and the European Union (EU) highlights key priorities for the recovery of the...
Energizing health: Accelerating electricity access in health-care facilities
Close to one billion people globally are served by health-care facilities with no electricity access or with unreliable electricity New joint report launched Close to 1 billion people in low- and...
A child or youth died once every 4.4 seconds in 2021 – UN report [EN/AR]
Another 1.9 million babies were tragically stillborn during the same period, according to a separate UN report. NEW YORK/GENEVA/WASHINGTON D.C., 10 January 2023 – An estimated 5 million children died...
Never Forgotten: The situation of stillbirth around the globe - Report of the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, 2022
Their names are Ashley, Everett and Shayen. They are among the 53 million babies that have been stillborn since 2000. Yet many of these children did not have to die. Many would be alive today had...
Levels & Trends in Child Mortality: Report 2022
CHILD, ADOLESCENT AND YOUTH MORTALITY: A SNAPSHOT In 2021, 5 million children died before turning 5 years old. Many of these tragedies occurred because children were deprived of their basic right to...
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Making the Invisible Visible: An evidence-based analysis of gender in the regional response to the war in Ukraine [EN/UK]
The escalation of the war in Ukraine began on 24 February 2022, causing thousands of civilian casualties; destroying civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, and triggering the fastest growing...
New fund for pandemic prevention, preparedness and response formally established
Designed to reflect inclusive and effective governance and operating arrangements with high standards of transparency and accountability; hosted by the World Bank with technical leadership from WHO ...
World Bank Board Approves New Fund for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPR)
World Bank to work together with WHO to set up Secretariat at the World Bank, with WHO as lead technical partner The devastating human, economic, and social cost of COVID-19 has highlighted the...
Global, regional, and national trends in under-5 mortality between 1990 and 2019 with scenario-based projections until 2030: a systematic analysis by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation
David Sharrow, Lucia Hug, Danzhen You, Leontine Alkema, Robert Black, Simon Cousens, Trevor Croft, Victor Gaigbe-Togbe, Patrick Gerland, Michel Guillot, Kenneth Hill, Bruno Masquelier, Colin Mathers,...
Break COVID now: the GAVI COVAX AMC investment opportunity [EN/AR/DE/IT/JP/ZH]
SUMMARY "COVID-19 has changed the world. It has cost lives, battered health systems and damaged livelihoods. But, through these challenges, we have seen the best of humanity exemplified through...
Joint Statement of the Multilateral Leaders Taskforce on Scaling Covid-19 Tools, December 17, 2021: “From Vaccines to Vaccinations”
Washington, December 22, 2021 — The heads of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank Group, World Health Organization, and World Trade Organization held high-level consultations with Gavi and...