Some 4.5 billion people, more than half the global population, do not have enough access to essential health services, an issue that world leaders and ministers will tackle at a series of high-level meetings at the UN this week.

A child holds medicine he received from health workers at a mobile health clinic in a neighbourhood of eastern Aleppo, Syria. UNICEF/Khudr Al-Issa
A child holds medicine he received from health workers at a mobile health clinic in a neighbourhood of eastern Aleppo, Syria. UNICEF/Khudr Al-Issa

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