Our Work


We works to promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable. Our goal is to ensure that more people have universal health coverage, to protect more people from health emergencies, and provide a further more people with better health and well-being. For universal health coverage, we: focus on primary health care to improve access to quality essential services work towards sustainable financing and financial protection improve access to essential medicines and health products train the health workforce and advise on labour policies support people's participation in national health policies improve monitoring, data and information. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic and has named the disease caused by the virus COVID-19. It is related to other coronaviruses such as SARS and MERS, but is not the same virus. “The virus enters the body through the nose, mouth or eyes, then attaches to cells in the airways that produce a protein called ACE2,” according to the New York Times in its explainer “How Coronavirus Hijacks Your Cells.” Infection by COVID-19 is rarely fatal, according to the WHO.