Health Sub Targets
Reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births
Reduce maternal mortality
End the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases.
Fight communicable diseases
Ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education.
What is equal access to quality pre-primary education?
Substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship.
Increase the number of people with relevant skills for financial success
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Main Sustainable Development Goal concerning Education
Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programs.
Universal access to sexual and reproductive care, family planning and education
Reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being.
Reduce mortality from non-communicable diseases and promote mental health
Eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations.
Eliminate all discrimination in education
Build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all.
Build and upgrade inclusive and safe schools
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Main Sustainable Development Goal concerning Health
Strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol.
Prevent and treat substance abuse
Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all.
Achieve universal health coverage
Ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy.
Universal literacy and numeracy
Substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation for teacher training in developing countries, especially least developed countries and small island developing States.
Increase the supply of qualified teachers in developing countries
Education liberates the intellect, unlocks the imagination and is fundamental for self-respect. It is the key to prosperity and opens a world of opportunities, making it possible for each of us to contribute to a progressive, healthy society. Learning benefits every human being and should be available to all.
Importance and reason for the Education goal
End preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births and under‑5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1,000 live births.
End all preventable deaths under 5 years of age
Strengthen the capacity of all countries, in particular developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global health risks.
Improve early warning systems for global health risks
Ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes.
Free primary and secondary education
Ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development
Education for sustainable development and global citizenship
Over the last 15 years, the number of childhood deaths has been cut in half. This proves that it is possible to win the fight against almost every disease. Still, we are spending an astonishing amount of money and resources on treating illnesses that are surprisingly easy to prevent. The new goal for worldwide Good Health promotes healthy lifestyles, preventive measures and modern, efficient healthcare for everyone
Importance and reason for Health goal
Substantially increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce in developing countries, especially in least developed countries and small island developing States.
Increase health financing and support health workforce in developing countries
Support the research and development of vaccines and medicines for the communicable and non-communicable diseases that primarily affect developing countries, provide access to affordable essential medicines and vaccines, in accordance with the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, which affirms the right of developing countries to use to the full the provisions in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights regarding flexibilities to protect public health, and, in particular, provide access to medicines for all.
Support research, development and universal access to affordable vaccines and medicines
Ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university.
Equal access to affordable technical, vocational and higher education
Substantially expand globally the number of scholarships available to developing countries, in particular least developed countries, small island developing States and African countries, for enrollment in higher education, including vocational training and information and communications technology, technical, engineering and scientific programs, in developed countries and other developing countries.
Expand higher education scholarships for developing countries
What year are the subtargets for the Sustainable Development Goals supposed to be met?
The year 2030