3. Good Health and Well-being

by Adije Fatou Diop

Good health and well-being

This goal promotes a healthier life for people, there was also a significant progress has been made recently, but people continue to suffer needlessly from preventable diseases and too many children die prematurely.

Overcoming diseases and health problems will require concerted and sustained efforts focusing on population groups and regions have been neglected.

Targets

Reduce the global maternal mortality

Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health with national strategies and programs.

Reduce the number of deaths

Tourism for SDGs

In this context, a project by UNWTO’s Sustainable Tourism - Eliminating Poverty Initiative (ST-EP) is to work to support women entrepreneurs in the Mopti region, enabling them to become integrated into the tourism value chain and to relate themselves to local supply chains.

In Mopti, many small camps, restaurants and eateries are run by women including the traditional fabrics as well as agricultural and processing activities like vegetable growing and the production of natural jams and fruit juices from local production, such as tamarind, bissap and baobab which also serve to cure diseases.

Fruit juices from local production ( tamarind, baobab, bissap )