Health innovation is critical to sustaining and building on the significant gains made in global life expectancy and reductions in mortality and morbidity.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), globally, life expectancy has increased by five years since 2000, the fastest rise since the 1960s. Much of this has been driven by improvements in child survival as well as expanded access to antiretrovirals for the treatment of HIV. For women, maternal mortality rates dropped by 44% between 1990 and 2015. Continue reading