![]() ![]() Just as I urge you all to continue to work together, and to support the World Health Organization, to achieve the highest standard of health for all. This can help to protect people both in times of crisis, and in the long term, by investing in measures such as universal health coverage. You can always supplement with books from the library as well. I have my son read a page or two from the book, then go check out the quicklinks on the computer. I have called for an SDG Stimulus to scale-up affordable long-term financing for all countries in need, by at least 500 billion dollars a year. Short reads on what is science, the seasons, energy, forces, bones and muscles, etc. Together, we must also turbocharge progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. I hope the current negotiations on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response result in a strong multilateral approach that saves lives. It is vital to prepare for the health threats to come – from new pandemics to climate dangers – so that we prevent where we can, and respond fast and effectively where we cannot. The WHO has a key coordinating role to play when pandemics strike. That means strengthening the independence, authority and financing of the World Health Organization, which stands at the heart of our international effort. My report, Our Common Agenda, calls for improved protection of global public goods, including health. If we cooperate, despite the tensions straining relations between nations. We can realize our ambitions for health and wellbeing for all.īut only if the world works together. We risk further eroding the enormous gains made over the past decades, and backsliding on the Sustainable Development Goals. The health of billions is endangered by the climate crisis.Īnd the COVID-19 pandemic has stalled, and even reversed, progress in public health. Infant mortality – down sixty percent in thirty years Global life expectancy – up over 50 percent In the decades since the birth of the World Health Organization, human health has advanced dramatically: That disease in one nation endangers all Īnd that achieving the greatest possible health for everyone, everywhere relies on cooperation. ![]() 75 years ago, in the earliest days of the United Nations, countries came together and affirmed some fundamental truths: ![]()
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