These achievements are captured in the WHO Results Report, a comprehensive and interactive report available on the WHO website.
This has been achieved by Member States working across sectors to address the root causes of ill health: unclean air, unhealthy diets, unsafe water, polluted environments, and products that harm health. Following the Health Assembly's adoption last year of a resolution on behavioural science, we worked with the World Bank to produce a new report showing that while some countries are using behavioural science in policies and planning, it is often fragmented, ad-hoc, and not connected to national health strategies.
149 countries signed the COP28 declaration on climate change and health, and donors committed more than 1 billion US dollars to address the health impacts of climate change. We are also continuing to work with our partners in the Quadripartite to support countries to translate a One Health approach into policy and action.
To support countries to realise those commitments, WHO is working in more than 120 countries through the UHC Partnership. We prequalified 120 medicines, vaccines, diagnostics and other products last year for HIV, malaria, multidrug-resistant TB, Ebola, polio and COVID-19, as well as the first long-acting insulin analogues;And we standardized nomenclature for more than 300 cell and gene therapies - it sounds boring, but it's one of those things that WHO does that no one notices, but which makes a huge difference to researchers, manufacturers and prescribers.
This year, most of the 20 countries with the most children who missed out completely on vaccines during the pandemic are launching and implementing their plans to reach those children. More than 2 million children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi have received the first malaria vaccine, RTS,S, resulting in a drop of 13% in all-cause mortality among children.
On tuberculosis, about 8 million people - more than ever before - received access to diagnosis and treatment last year.In addition, the UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting agreed new targets to end TB, and we launched the TB Vaccine Accelerator Council, to facilitate the development, licensing and equitable use of new TB vaccines.
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