PMNCH 2021-2025 Strategy

Overview

Securing the health and well-being of women, children and adolescents is the greatest endeavour of our time. Health and well-being are also basic human rights. Whether or not we secure these rights for the most vulnerable women, children and adolescents is the ultimate test of whether we create – through very deliberate choices – caring and just societies, or whether we look the other way.

At the time of writing, the COVID-19 pandemic is fundamentally redefining the world we live in. COVID-19 has resulted in critical declines in sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health services. Approximately 80 million babies risk missing routine immunizations. Over 90% of students worldwide have been affected by school closures. The world faces a deep and sustained economic recession, and a reversal of significant recent progress towards the health-related and other Sustainable Development Goals.