Accelerate action on drowning prevention.

 In April 2021 the United Nations General Assembly adopted a historic resolution on global drowning prevention, recognizing the scale and impact of drowning globally, and calling for coordinated multisectoral action to prevent drowning – a leading cause of injury-related death and disability worldwide. The resolution invites all Member States and their partners to observe World Drowning Prevention Day annually on 25 July in accordance with national priorities, ‘…in order to raise awareness of the importance of drowning prevention and the need for urgent coordinated multisectoral action to improve water safety, with the aim of reducing preventable deaths’. And in May 2023 the 76th World Health Assembly adopted its first-ever resolution on drowning prevention, requesting governments and their partners, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), to accelerate action on drowning prevention through 2029. The resolution was sponsored by the Governments of Bangladesh and Ireland and adopted by all 194 Member States to address this public health concern