Acting on the Call 2016: A Focus on Equity

The 2016 Acting on the Call report provides country-by-country updates on progress made over the past year in the 24 priority countries, which together now account for more than two-thirds of child and maternal deaths worldwide.

For the first time, the 2016 report outlines how, with a new emphasis on equitable access to health care, we can save 8 million lives in the bottom two quintiles alone -- poorest two-fifths or 40 percent of the population -- over the next four years. The report examines how to accelerate progress through an equity-based approach, describing what can be achieved if the bottom two wealth quintiles have the same opportunities and access to health interventions as the rest of the population.