The Federal Government of Somalia today launched the Somalia Community Health Strategy 2025–2029, a landmark policy aimed at strengthening the country’s primary health care system and accelerating progress toward Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

Somalia continues to face significant health challenges, including some of the world’s highest maternal and child mortality rates, widespread malnutrition, low immunization coverage, and recurring disease outbreaks such as polio and measles. The new strategy directly responds to these challenges by expanding maternal and newborn care, improving early detection and treatment of childhood illnesses, scaling up nutrition screening and support, increasing immunization outreach, and strengthening community‑based disease surveillance.