Reducing infant and maternal mortality rates should be central to efforts to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals yet seems to be falling off the radar for many world leaders, according to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
In its seventh annual Goalkeepers report, released Tuesday, the foundation again showed the world lagging on nearly all of the SDGs, which include eliminating poverty and limiting and adapting to climate change by 2030.
“Our most ancient public health problem — the survival of mothers and babies — remains the most urgent,” the foundation said, naming it as a critical area where progress has stalled since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
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Stephanie Beasley@Steph_Beasley
Stephanie Beasley is a Senior Reporter at Devex, where she covers global philanthropy with a focus on regulations and policy. She is an alumna of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and Oberlin College and has a background in Latin American studies. She previously covered transportation security at POLITICO.
