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The world is on track to miss its health targets

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The world is on track to miss its health targets Progress in tackling some of the big killers is backsliding, putting the health of millions at risk. Every year the World Health Organization publishes a global health statistics report. It features the numbers behind world health trends and, importantly, assesses whether we’re on track to reach ambitious goals set in 2015. It’s a bit like a health ...
The WHO report paints a sobering picture of global health progress, revealing systemic failures in meeting ambitious but necessary targets. The strongest version of this narrative is that despite incremental improvements, structural inequities, underinvestment, and external shocks like the pandemic have derailed progress. The report deserves credit for its transparency in highlighting these gaps, particularly in regions like the Global South, where preventable diseases like malaria and tuberculo...