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'The world is on course to miss every one of the 52 health-related Sustainable Development Goal targets by 2030, the World Health Organization has warned, as ministers from its 194 member states gather in Geneva for an assembly tasked with reversing that trajectory.
'With malaria cases rising, maternal deaths still occurring at nearly three times the targeted rate and childhood vaccination coverage plateauing or falling in some regions, progress on global health goals has slowed, stalled or reversed across virtually every measure since 2015, according to the 2026 edition of the WHO’s World Health Statistics report... https://iris.who.int/server/api/core/bitstreams/45189137-2f10-48e1-ae43-...
'The pandemic erased nearly a decade of gains in life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, the WHO chief said, with only female life expectancy returning to pre-pandemic levels globally by 2023...
“Official development assistance for health was estimated to be 30-40% less in 2025 than in 2023,” Tedros said. “Many countries face long-standing structural constraints including high debt burdens and insufficient domestic public financing. Sudden aid reductions risk significant disruption of essential health services, reduced access to life-saving essential medicines and vaccines.”
HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org