Sustainable Development Goal

Nigeria       Nigeria has is one of the fastest-growing populations globally. With the development challenges this country has and with the rising population numbers, Nigeria lowers the socioeconomic indicators for the entire African continent (USAID, 2020.)  Malaria is a life-threatening disease that causes the deaths of many children in low-income countries. In 2018, there were about 228 million cases of malaria worldwide. Nigeria counted for 25% of those cases, making it the country with the highest malaria cases for that year (WHO,2019.) Another life-threatening disease in Nigeria is HIV. Nigeria has the second-largest number of people living with HIV globally and accounts for nine percent of the global HIV cases (USAID, 2020.) SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being Implemented and Monitored Nigeria is one of the low-income countries that need the funds, and resources to reach SDG 3, ensuring good health and well-being of the people. A plan was set into a framew...

Somalia  Somalia is one of the world’s most difficult environments for survival. From having a lacking functioning government, economic failure, armed conflicts, and a decline of health and public services, all these factors contribute to the failure to maintain the health and well-being of people of this country (WHO, 2012.) The poor conditions that the people of this country live in reflect in their health conditions and the available care they have or the lack of it. Children are one of the most affected in regard to the conditions of the country. Children’s under-five mortality rate consist of  117 out of 1,000 live births (UNICEF, 2019.) The number of causes that contribute to the mortality rate of children to be so high ranges from neonatal complications, respiratory infections,  diarrhea, intestinal parasites, skin conditions, eye infections, anemia and the lack of basic health care services.    Implement Health and Well-being Efforts are being made to ch...

      Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all ages.                  Currently a worldwide pandemic has affected the lives of thousands of people. COVID-19 has brought t o lig ht many of the flaws that many countries have regarding the healthcare system and it influences the people. Some of the  main reasons why so many people have been affected by virus include that some countries were not prepared for this kind of issue to occur and expand and many don't have the resources available to have accessible healthcare that the people need.            This sustainable development goal, was created to ensure healthy lives and promote the importance of the people's wellbeing at all ages. Before the strike of the pandemic,  significant process was made to improve the  heal th of millions of people. For example, life expectancy has been increased by red...