Day 3: Good Health and Wellbeing

24 Days of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

SDG #3: Ensure Healthy Lives and Promote Well-being for All at All Ages

Overview

This goal focuses on ensuring the health and well-being of everyone, at every stage of life. It addresses all major health priorities, including:

· Reproductive, maternal and child health

· Communicable, non-communicable and environmental diseases

· Universal health coverage

· Access for all to safe, effective, quality and affordable medicines and vaccines

It also calls for more research, health financing, and strengthened capacity of all countries in health risk reduction and management.

Status Update

I don’t have to tell you that an unprecedented and ongoing global pandemic has devastated health systems globally and threatens the great headway previously achieved.

In fact, all progress on health outcomes has been either halted or reversed since COVID-19 broke out, even shortening the average human life expectancy. The last decade of progress on reproductive, maternal and child health in particular has been severely…