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Learn more about the Road Map
Find out more about the World Health Organization's Global Road Map to Defeat Meningitis by 2030.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has created a global plan to transform the way we prevent, diagnose and treat meningitis with the goal of defeating meningitis by 2030. This plan also sets out to improve disease monitoring, communication, aftercare and support.
If achieved, the Global Road Map to Defeat Meningitis by 2030 could save the lives of up to 200,000 people each year and eliminate bacterial meningitis epidemics.
- End bacterial meningitis epidemics,
- Reduce cases of vaccine-preventable bacterial meningitis by 50%, and deaths by 70%,
- Reduce disability and improve quality of life after meningitis.
WHO developed the Road Map with input from people affected by meningitis, scientists, health experts, governments and civil society organisations, like us. In 2020, WHO presented the Road Map at the World Health Assembly, where Member States voted to support it by passing a resolution (WHA73.9). This means that each country endorses the goals of the Road Map and commits to taking the actions set out within it.
The plan focusses on the main causes of bacterial meningitis (meningococcus, pneumococcus, Haemophilus influenzae and group B streptococcus). Bacterial meningitis is the deadliest form of meningitis, with the World Health Organization estimating that around 1 in 6 people who get it will die.
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