CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -19 November 2019, New Delhi: The three-day 2019 World Conference on ‘Access to Medical Products: Achieving the SDGs 2030’ was inaugurated by Dr Harsh Vardhan , Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare and Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, Government of India in New Delhi today.

Detailed explanation-2: -Introduction to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) The health goal (SDG 3) is broad: ‘Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages’. The SDG declaration emphasizes that to achieve the overall health goal, ‘we must achieve universal health coverage (UHC) and access to quality health care.

Detailed explanation-3: -Health has a central place in SDG 3: Ensure healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages, underpinned by 13 targets that cover a wide spectrum of WHO’s work. Almost all of the other 16 goals are directly related to health or will contribute to health indirectly.

Detailed explanation-4: -Communities and civil society should receive support for addressing the determinants of health, using human rights-based and gender-sensitive approaches. Innovative programming should include responses to disease outbreaks, and research and development should foster initiatives in data collection and digital health.