Vaccines work. Health systems don't...at least not for everyone. As long as 14.3 million zero-dose children exist, UHC remains an unfinished promise.

Immunisation is one of global health's most powerful tools and one where the UK continues to play a leading role. Yet over 14 million children worldwide have not received a single dose of vaccine. This World Immunisation Week, we celebrate the progress made and call for renewed support for childhood immunisation programmes at home and around the world, to ensure that no child is left behind.

Last week, a number of governments renewed their support for the Global Financing Facility - a financing mechanism for women and girls' healthcare which we know saves lives. In Ethiopia alone, it helped cut maternal mortality by a third in just five years. This is a crucial moment for the UK to step up, show leadership and help protect the health gains we cannot afford to lose.

This Mother's Day, spare a thought for the millions of women around the world for whom pregnancy and childbirth are still a matter of life and death — and what the UK can do about it.

In a challenging political and economic climate, Save the Children teams in UK, Australia, Germany, Geneva, Norway, USA and the EU fought to make children's health a global priority last year. Learn about our global health advocacy wins in 2025 and how we plan to build on this in 2026.

Health is a human right but what is the role of the private sector to deliver it? Too many families around the world are driven into poverty by medical costs when governments struggle to meet the healthcare needs of their populations. Last week, at the World Health Summit, Save the Children convened a panel of experts from Gavi, GSK, Reach52, Kumwe Hub and the WHO to explore the potential of public-private partnerships to accelerate progress towards Universal Health Coverage and ensuring access for those living in poverty.

The UK faced a recent heatwave and is braced for more to come. As worrying as this is for us, the health implications for children on the frontline of the climate emergency are so much more dire and exacerbated by fragile health systems as well as the recent cuts to overseas development assistance. The UK government must go further and faster to protect children from the devastating impacts of heatwaves and other climate extremes, both at home and abroad.

A fully funded WHO can save an additional 40 million lives over the next 4 years.

For more than a decade our partnership with the Gates Foundation has made real progress in healthcare for children.

The launch of the Civil Society Commission by the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) in September 2023 was a historic moment.