TABLE 6.

Examples of quick wins in the health sector⁷

•The training of large numbers of village workers in health, farming, and infrastructure (in 1 year) to ensure basic expertise and services in rural communities •Distribution of free, long-lasting, insecticide-treated bednets to all children in malaria-endemic zones to decisively cut the burden of malaria •Elimination of user fees for basic health services in all developing countries, financed by increased domestic and donor resources for health •Expansion of access to sexual and reproductive health, including family planning and contraceptive information and services, by closing existing funding gaps on contraceptive supplies, family planning, and logistics •Expansion of the use of proven effective drug combinations for AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, especially in places where infrastructure already exists but finance is lacking