Global Health Organizations Collaborate to Achieve SDGs

Eleven heads of the world’s leading health and development organizations signed a landmark commitment to find new ways of working together to accelerate progress towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Coordinated by the World Health Organization, the initiative unites the work of 11 organizations, with others set to join in the next phase. The commitment follows a request from German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of Ghana, and Prime Minister Erna Solberg of Norway, with support from United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, to develop a global action plan defining how global actors can better collaborate to accelerate progress towards the health-related targets of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. “Healthy people are essential for sustainable development – to ending poverty, promoting peaceful and inclusive societies and protecting the environment. However, despite great strides made against many of the leading causes of death and disease, we must redouble our efforts or we will not reach several of the health-related targets,” the organizations announced on Tuesday at the World Health Summit here. – United News of India