This National Oral Health Strategic Action Plan of Bangladesh 2025-2030 will guide the national response to Oral Health in Bangladesh over a period of five years. This follows the Action Plan for Oral Health in South-East Asia 2022-2030 and Global Strategy and Action Plan on Oral Health 2023-2030. This 2025-2030 strategy was designed by adopting the guidance of these two WHO technical documents. This national strategy will implement Bangladesh’s commitment to achieving the UN’s 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goal 3: on ensuring healthy lives and UHC.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW), in collaboration with the (NCDC) Unit, WHO, and ARK Foundation, initiated the development of the National Oral Health Strategic Action Plan of Bangladesh (2025-2030) following the first WHO Global Oral Health Meeting in Thailand in 2024.
This national strategy offers a five-year roadmap to improve oral health outcomes through prevention, early detection, and integrated care. Developed through national consultations with government bodies, experts, development partners, and local stakeholders, the strategy emphasizes a multi-sectoral approach involving health, education, trade, environment, finance law and non-state actors.
This strategic document comprises a costed action plan for a five-year period, from 2025 to 2030. This document serves as a guiding framework to reduce the burden of oral diseases in Bangladesh, address disparities, and make oral health an integral part of the national public health agenda and UHC. It envisions a future where every person in Bangladesh can enjoy good oral health and live free from preventable oral diseases.
