Ensure Health for All – Women Deliver
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Sources:

  • 3 billion people do not receive the health services they need (WHO and The World Bank, 2017)
  • Nearly 100 million people are impoverished by the cost of health care (WHO, 2018)
  • HIV infections are 44% higher among young women, ages 15 – 24 years, than they are among young men in the same age range (UNAIDS, 2017)
  • Vaccinating adolescent girls against the human papillomavirus (HPV) — a cost of only $10 to $25 per person — would avert more than 3 million deaths from cervical cancer (Harvard School of Public Health, 2013)
  • Implementing recommended interventions for the prevention and control of NCDs in LMICs could save 8.2 million lives and yield US$350 billion in economic growth between 2018 and 2030 (WHO, 2018) 

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