Global Annual Results Report 2024: Goal Area 1 (Volume I: Health)
Every child survives and thrives
Highlights
The Global Annual Results Report on Goal Area 1 of the UNICEF Strategic Plan 2022-2025 (volume I) presents results on two interconnected programmes: Health and HIV/AIDS, and Child Nutrition and Development. The overall aim of this work is to ensure that every child, including every adolescent, survives and thrives with access to a nutritious and diverse diet, quality primary health care (PHC) services, nurturing care practices and essential supplies. UNICEF’s efforts to advance these outcomes supports achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly 2 and 3.
Programmes in Goal Area 1 cover eight result areas. Several cross-cutting priorities and programmes are entrenched within the work undertaken in these result areas, including disability inclusion, gender, climate action and peacebuilding.
Children’s rights to health and nutrition are undermined by inequities. UNICEF works with partners to reach children and communities wherever they may be, to realize every child’s right to survive, grow up and develop to their full potential. The organization prioritizes the most disadvantaged and marginalized children in population groups, with a focus on equitable access. Overall, results were strong in the face of ongoing challenges including the impacts of increasing inequities, climate-related disasters, persistent and new conflicts, and a global food and nutrition crisis.
Headline results:
- To prevent and respond to outbreaks, in 2024 UNICEF supported the vaccination of 110.4 million children against measles, 24.6 million of whom were in humanitarian crisis settings. UNICEF also delivered 88.8 million doses of measles-containing vaccine to 23 countries for supplementary immunization activities.
- UNICEF supported by the delivery of 1.5 billion vaccine doses for campaigns targeting over 554 million children.
- UNICEF supported 35.6 million live births with quality maternal and newborn care in health-care facilities across 89 countries in 2024; cumulatively, this amounts to 154.9 million live births supported since 2021.
