HIV-Related Laws & Policies

This data portal is the World Health Organization's (WHO) main health statistics repository. The Global Health Observatory (GHO) provides access to more than 1,000 indicators on priority health topics including mortality and burden of diseases, the Sustainable Development Goals, noncommunicable diseases and risk factors, epidemic-prone diseases, health systems, environmental health, violence and injuries, and health equity. In addition, the GHO provides access to WHO's analytical reports on the current status and trends of priority health…

These immunization snapshot brochures published by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) provide key statistics on immunizations for each of the major world regions: East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Eastern and Southern Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, and West and Central Africa. These brochures include data visuals such as graphs and tables to show coverage levels of immunizations against specific diseases such as measles,…

This Lancet Commission report addresses the importance of essential medicines and their place in global health policy. Shifting the discussion from a focus on low- and middle-income countries to a worldwide approach, the commission explores what progress has been made by governments to promote access to essential medicines, what challenges remain ahead, what lessons have been learned and can inform future approaches, and how essential medicines policies can be leveraged to promote universal health coverage…