WHO 2023 Report Highlights Health Wins, Urges Push for Sustainable Goals

The World Health Organization (WHO) Results Report 2023, the most comprehensive to date, showcases achievement of key public health milestones, even amid greater global humanitarian health needs driven by conflict, climate change and disease outbreaks.

The report will be released ahead of the 2024 Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly, which runs 27 May – 1 June 2024. WHO's revised Programme Budget for 2022–2023 was US$ 6726.1 million, incorporating lessons learned from the pandemic response and addressing emerging health priorities.

With 96% of WHO country offices providing 174 country reports on achievements, the report shows some progress towards 46 targets and highlights some challenges.

Triple Billion Targets

"The world is off track to reach most of the triple billion targets and the health-related Sustainable Development Goals," said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. "However, with concrete and concerted action to accelerate progress, we could still achieve a substantial subset of them. Our goal is to invest even more resources where they matter most—at the country level—while ensuring sustainable and flexible financing to support our mission."

The report shows advancement in several key areas, including healthier populations, Universal Health Coverage (UHC), and health emergencies protection.

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