Defeating meningitis by 2030: a global road map - Executive Summary

Overview

The meningitis road map was approved at the Seventy-third World Health Assembly, in the first ever resolution on meningitis prevention and control. It is an essential component in achieving universal health coverage.

The road map will reinforce and combine with wider initiatives, such as those aimed at strengthening primary health care and health systems, increasing immunization coverage, improving global health security, fighting antimicrobial resistance and advocating for the rights of persons with disabilities. It will complement other global control strategies, such as those addressing sepsis, pneumonia, tuberculosis and HIV.