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What is needed: Increased financing, reliable supplies of affordable and effective medicines, improved data from health information systems, stronger implementation of national malaria programs, and leadership that looks beyond the health sector.
Data products such as the Key Indicators series are crucial to evidence-based policymaking.
Lanzhou, in the People’s Republic of China, has the world's first bus rapid transit with a split station design allowing buses in the same direction to stop on both sides of the platform, easing travel time.
Improve water supply, sanitation, and solid waste management to strengthen resilience to vector-borne diseases.
Change management, effective public–private partnership, and regulation are crucial to the success of citywide inclusive sanitation programs.
Increased use of geospatial modelling in integrated energy planning highlights gaps in data.
The Republic of Korea is testing drone technology in a variety of applications, including construction, agriculture, health care, and law enforcement.
Less developed countries can take advantage of increased talent flows in the region in expanding their “brain network.”
To preserve lives and revive the economy, countries need to plan ahead to secure sufficient supplies of the future COVID-19 vaccine.
In the run-up to the high-level dialogue on energy in September, stakeholders must join hands to scale up action toward SDG 7.