Primary Health Care Health Systems Levers for action

Meningitis is deadly and debilitating; it strikes quickly, has serious consequences including lifelong disability, and affects people of all ages in all countries of the world. The defeating meningitis road map will reinforce and combine with wider initiatives, such as those aimed at strengthening primary health care and health systems, increasing immunization coverage, improving global health security, fighting antimicrobial resistance and advocating for the rights of persons with disabilities.

It will complement other global control strategies, such as those addressing sepsis, pneumonia, tuberculosis and HIV. The defeating meningitis roadmap implementation would also facilitate strengthening of PHC in high-burden countries.