On 26th April 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) held the first high-level meeting to defeat meningitis. The event was a global call to action to boost political, technical and financial commitments towards defeating meningitis.
The event included the launch of WHO’s publication Investing to defeat meningitis and beyond. The investment case sets out the resources needed to achieve the milestones in the WHO Global Road Map. Without investment, defeating meningitis by 2030 remains a hope, not a plan.
Below, you will find information about these critical milestones in the Race to 2030, and how Meningitis Research Foundation and members of the Confederation of Meningitis Organisations (CoMO) celebrated them: