Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

The pandemic and other ongoing crises are hindering progress in achieving SDG3, exacerbating existing health inequalities and threatening progress toward universal health coverage. As a result, 68 million children are known to be un or under-vaccinated as of 2022 from TB and malaria increased. This has been particularly challenging in low- and middle-income countries, where health systems were already under-resourced before the pandemic.

The goal targets to :

• reduce the global maternal mortality ratio;
• end preventable deaths of newborns and children;
• end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other communicable diseases;
• reduce mortality from non-communicable diseases;
• strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse;
• halve the number of deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents;
• ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services;
• achieve universal health coverage;
• reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and pollution;
• strengthen the implementation of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in all countries, as appropriate;
• support the research and development of vaccines and medicines for the communicable and non-communicable diseases that primarily affect developing countries, provide access to affordable essential medicines and vaccines;
• substantially increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce in developing countries, especially in least developed countries and small island developing States;
• strengthen the capacity of all countries, in particular developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global health risks.

Sources: https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal3 https://sdgs.un.org/topics/health-and-population