Universal Health Coverage: Q&A Factsheet

This report, prepared by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), analyzes the availability and quality of drinking water, sanitation services, and hygiene facilities around the world in 2020. It tracks key metrics across a variety of regions and countries from 2000 to 220 and uses the data to assess progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The report targets inequalities by tracking open defecation, basic access to water, sanitation, and hygiene services, and safe…

This case describes the National Vitamin A Program that the government of Nepal began in 1995 to distribute the supplements once it was recognized that vitamin A supplementation can save children’s lives. This program has averted nearly 200,000 child deaths. This case study is part of Millions Saved, a collection of case studies produced by the Center for Global Development that describes successful examples of large-scale efforts to improve health in low- and middle-income countries,…

This policy brief from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs examines the threat of COVID-19 to the health survival of indigenous peoples, many of whom are already the most vulnerable to poorer health outcomes. Indigenous peoples in nearly all countries have higher mortality rates, lower life expectancies, and greater rates of communicable and non-communicable disease compared to their non-indigenous counterparts. These outcomes are exacerbated by widespread stigma and discrimination in health care…