Executive Overview
Setting the scene and progress towards the 3 billion targets and SDGs.
WHO is marking its 75th anniversary this year, with its 194 Member States and partners, by calling for a renewed drive for health equity. The past seven and a half decades have seen extraordinary progress in protecting people from diseases, health risks and harms. However, as this report shows, further progress is needed to achieve the triple billion targets towards attaining the health-related Sustainable Development Goals and meeting other health challenges, such as mental health, antimicrobial resistance and climate change.
- Improved access to quality essential health services irrespective of gender, age or disability status
- Countries enabled to provide high-quality, people-centred health services, based on primary health care strategies and comprehensive essential service packages
Epidemics and pandemics prevented
Bolstering early warning systems and countermeasures for emerging zoonotic threats.
The COVID-19 pandemic and other recent outbreaks of infectious diseases have demonstrated that steps currently being taken to prevent the occurrence and spread of infectious diseases of known and unknown origin remain insufficient, despite an intensification of efforts. The COVID-19 virus, like the Ebola virus, the Zika virus, the Middle East respiratory syndrome, the severe acute respiratory syndrome and HIV/AIDS, made the jump to humans from another species.
At the same time, we must recognize that no early warning system for a potential zoonotic spill-over event will be foolproof. We must build on the foundations of the research and development blueprint to strengthen our readiness to rapidly scale up and coordinate the research, development and manufacture of countermeasures in the face of an emergent threat.
This means laying the groundwork now, reaching consensus and putting into place protocols for everything from sample-sharing and standards for genomic sequence pooling to clinical data-sharing and trials, regulatory pathways and operational research.
PROGRAMME BUDGET FUNDING AND UTILIZATION
WHO’s biennial Programme budget is based on the principles of transparency, accountability and providing value for money
The Seventy-fifth World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA75.5 in May 2022, revising the approved base programmes segment of the Programme budget 2022-2023 to a total of US$ 6.726 billion. By the end of the first year, the total Programme budget has a good level of financing (US$ 8.3 billion), including projections, which exceeded the total approved. The good level of financing is explained by two event-driven budget segments: emergency operations and appeals, and polio eradication, the financing for which has needed to exceed the amounts established in the Programme budget in order to keep step with operational needs.
