Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Director-General's foreword
Executive Overview
Setting the scene and progress towards the 3 billion targets and SDGs.
WHO is marking its 75th anniversary this year, with its 194 Member States and partners, by calling for a renewed drive for health equity. The past seven and a half decades have seen extraordinary progress in protecting people from diseases, health risks and harms. However, as this report shows, further progress is needed to achieve the triple billion targets towards attaining the health-related Sustainable Development Goals and meeting other health challenges, such as mental health, antimicrobial resistance and climate change.
- Improved access to quality essential health services irrespective of gender, age or disability status
- Countries enabled to provide high-quality, people-centred health services, based on primary health care strategies and comprehensive essential service packages
Improved access to quality essential health services irrespective of gender, age or disability status
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Reduced number of people suffering financial hardship
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Improved access to essential medicines, vaccines, diagnostics and devices for primary health care
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Countries prepared for health emergencies
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Epidemics and pandemics prevented
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Health emergencies rapidly detected and responded to
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Safe and equitable societies through addressing health determinants
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Supportive and empowering societies through addressing health risk factors
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Healthy environments to promote health and sustainable societies
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Strengthened country capacity in data and innovation
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Strengthened leadership, governance and advocacy for health
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Financial, human, and administrative resources managed in an efficient, effective, results-oriented and transparent manner
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PROGRAMME BUDGET FUNDING AND UTILIZATION
WHO’s biennial Programme budget is based on the principles of transparency, accountability and providing value for money
Approved revised programme budget
US$
6726.00
million
Available funds
US$
8336.00
million
Utilization
US$
3812.00
million
The Seventy-fifth World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA75.5 in May 2022, revising the approved base programmes segment of the Programme budget 2022-2023 to a total of US$ 6.726 billion. By the end of the first year, the total Programme budget has a good level of financing (US$ 8.3 billion), including projections, which exceeded the total approved. The good level of financing is explained by two event-driven budget segments: emergency operations and appeals, and polio eradication, the financing for which has needed to exceed the amounts established in the Programme budget in order to keep step with operational needs.
