How Can Tourism Help the Sustainable Development Goals? #3 Health & Well-Being
While we would all like holidays for greater health and well-being, more than 6 million children die even before their fifth birthday every year still, many in the places we visit, 4 out of 5 in sub-Saharan Africa.

16,000 children still die each day from preventable diseases such as measles and tuberculosis and AIDS, now the leading cause of death among teenagers in sub-Saharan Africa (UN).
These deaths can be avoided through prevention and treatment, education, immunization campaigns, and sexual and reproductive healthcare.
For this reason, Sustainable Development Goal #3 of the 17 Global Goals is:
SDG #3 “Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages”
The Goal calls for universal health coverage, access for all to safe, effective, quality and affordable medicines and vaccines, more research and development, increased health financing, and strengthened capacity of all countries in health risk reduction and management.
National health systems are often under-resourced, private healthcare prohibitively expensive, and affordable services extremely limited, leaving many with no viable healthcare options. Risk reduction strategies are therefore vital to reduce the need for medical care.
Tourism can help: Earth Changers research & showcase the best positive impact, transformative tourism, going into greater detail and examples here on how tourism can help the SDGs, and ending hunger.
There you can see what pioneering tourism organisations are doing in the areas of child health, maternal health, sexual health, sanitation and hygiene, to support universal well-being for all and healthy lifestyles.
What are the (other) Sustainable Development Goals and what have they got to do with Tourism?
