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<p>Ensuring access for all to quality essential health and nutrition services is critical
to increasing life expectancy and leaving no one behind. DFID assists countries to
strengthen their health systems to ensure access to quality health services, medicines,
and other essential commodities; save lives and improve women’s and children’s health,
including sexual and reproductive health and rights; protect communities from health
threats such as disease outbreaks and antimicrobial resistance; prevent and treat
malnutrition; and tackle diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis and malaria that cause
death and disability. As the second largest donor to the Global Fund, our funding
contributed to the distribution of 197 million mosquito nets and the treatment of
108 million cases of malaria in 2017. Our investment to Gavi between 2016 and 2020
will vaccinate 76m children and save 1.4m lives.</p><p> </p>
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