The Minister of Health announces the recommendations of the third edition of the World Conference on Population, Health and Development 2025
Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Deputy Prime Minister for Human Development and Minister of Health and Population, announced the conclusion of the work and activities of the third edition of the World Conference on Population, Health and Development 2025, under the slogan (Empowering Individuals… Promoting Progress… Providing Opportunities) under the patronage of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, where the Minister launched the final recommendations of the conference.
At the beginning of his speech, Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar extended his thanks and appreciation to the President of the Republic, for his great interest in the health file, which Making public health a fundamental pillar within the “Egypt 2030” vision. He also thanked the Prime Minister for his continued support and honoring the conference at its opening session, as well as the ministers who are members of the Ministerial Group for Human Development, praising the real efforts of all the leaders of the Ministry of Health and Population, and development partners from international organizations, United Nations bodies, civil society organizations, and the private sector, who contributed tangible efforts to bring out a successful conference in an honorable way before the countries of the whole world, as well as sponsors and organizers. The conference.
Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar expressed his great happiness for the success of the conference in its third edition, praising the strong turnout and attendance, as the number of participants reached more than 46 thousand participants, and 198 dialogue sessions, workshops, and training courses were implemented, with the participation of 794 speakers and interlocutors, including more than 130 international speakers, and more than 32 ministers and government officials, And high-level international leaders, the conference also hosted more than 120 international, regional and national bodies. Natural childbirth skills, safe family planning methods, family counseling, reproductive health and support The population issue and raising family health awareness by improving knowledge of skin health and localizing the pharmaceutical industry, working to protect the health of athletes and reducing the risks of sudden deaths during training or sports competitions and general practices, and finally accreditation The Minister of Health reviewed a number of achievements made during the conference, as the digital platform for health tourism (Tour4Cure) was launched, the first health tourism forum, and the 2025 global forum for the purchase of vaccines, jointly organized with UNICEF, which aims, by 2030, to provide a smart, sustainable, and comprehensive health system that puts the citizen at the heart of the system, announcing the selection of the Council of Arab Health Ministers, affiliated with the Strategic League of Arab States. The National Digital Health Committee was launched by the Ministry of Health during the conference to be the reference framework for digital health strategies in all Arab member states of the League.
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health announced the final recommendations of the international conference, through its three axes to ensure sustainability and comprehensive growth.
The final – brief – recommendations of the World Conference on Population, Health and Development 2025
The first axis: population and human development
1. Integrating the development vision into the population file with a comprehensive perspective that includes economic and social empowerment.
2. Achieving a total fertility rate of 2.1 by 2027 through a unified population plan and a “life path” approach. From the thousand golden days.
3. Eliminate unmet needs and unplanned pregnancies by providing long-acting family planning methods and the principle of “No to missed opportunities”.
4. Empowering women economically and socially by increasing their contribution to the labor market through legislation, entrepreneurship, and community incubators.
5. Digitizing population data and turning red areas into green through a unified digital platform and artificial intelligence.
Second axis: Health services
1. Investing in primary care by transforming units into integrated centers and implementing “One Health” And “life path”.
2. Reducing unjustified caesarean sections and (maternal/neonatal) deaths through a natural birth strategy, private sector governance, and mother-and-child-friendly centers of excellence.
3. Sustaining screening for non-communicable diseases, nutrition and anti-smoking campaigns, and using artificial intelligence to distribute services in remote areas and link databases.
4. Sustainable health financing through public-private partnerships, universal insurance, and taxes on tobacco/harmful substances.
5. Immediate trial run of the “Egypt Medical Tourism” platform With accreditation standards and a multilingual call center.
6. Issuing a law regulating digital health.
The third axis: Human development
1. Promoting lifelong education and training by expanding technical education, establishing institutes, and integrating artificial intelligence skills.
2. Empowering youth and women through leadership programs, entrepreneurship, correcting gender roles, and engaging youth in policies.
3. Comprehensive social protection that includes informal workers, linked to health insurance/education, and support for the transition to formal work.
4. Strengthening multilateral cooperation through (regional/international) platforms to exchange experiences in artificial intelligence, “One Health,” and social protection.
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health and Population for Human Development concluded his speech by emphasizing that population is not a burden, but rather human capital, and that health is not a luxury, but rather an investment in the future of nations, and that human development is not an option, but rather the only path to achieving sustainability, announcing the launch date. Activities of the fourth edition of the international conference, during the period from 27 to 29 September 2026.
It is noteworthy that this conference began its activities by declaring the Egyptian state officially free of trachoma as a public health problem, and it is considered a new certificate from the World Health Organization, adding to the successes of the Egyptian health system, after its previous certificates that Egypt was free of polio in 2006, And the gold rank was achieved by Egypt completing – as the first country in the world – the process of eliminating Hepatitis C and making Egypt free of measles and rubella in March 2024 and renewing it in March 2025 and certifying that Egypt is the first country in the Eastern Mediterranean region to achieve the goals of the Health Organization
