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Key asks for 2020 SDG Voluntary National Reviews: SDG 3

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Good health and well-being for all is a foundation for the sustainable development agenda. Despite recent progress, major challenges remain with regards to health. At least half of the world’s population still lacks access to basic and affordable health services, and impoverishment due to the out-of-pocket cost of health care is on the rise.

In April 2013 in Nigeria, a woman holds her infant at Father Matthias Health Care Centre in the town of Naka, in Gwer West, a Local Government Area of Benue State.

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