The Sustainable Development Goals present an opportunity to reimagine and then reconfigure the approach to controlling sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The predilection of STIs for women and for vulnerable populations means that services that ameliorate STIs, by their nature, enhance equity, a key focus of the goals. Given the considerable breadth and depth of the goals, it is important ...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have emerged as a global pledge to 'leave no one behind'. Under SDG 3, 'Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all', target 3.3 extends the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) beyond HIV, TB and malaria to 'end the epidemic' of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by 2030. Other targets are also relevant to NTDs, especially 3.8 (Universal Health Co...

2016 was an important year for the global cancer and NCD community. Against the backdrop of work gearing up to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs), 2016 also marked the midpoint between the launch of the World Cancer Declaration targets in 2008 and their delivery in 2025. These targets build towards the Global Action Plan [1] (GAP) 25 by 25 targets and set out the priorities for ca...

Access to basic drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) is vital to improving health and quality of life globally. As discussions on the post-2015 framework and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) reach their crucial final phase, WaterAid is calling for WASH to be recognised as a key influential factor to be closely integrated into any health goal and priorities taken up by governmen...

Policymakers, practitioners, and researchers around the globe have been acting in a coordinated manner, yet remaining independent, to achieve seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) defined by United Nations. Remarkably, SDG-centric activities manifested huge information silo known as big data. In most cases, relevant subset of data is visualized using several two-dimensional plots. Thes...