Health and the Millennium Development Goals 2005 keep the promise
World Health Organization 2005
PDF online [84p.] at: http://www.who.int/mdg/publications/MDG_Report_08_2005.pdf
Recommended by Ana Lucia Ruggiero, PAHO
“……The eight Millennium Development Goals represent a unique global compact. Derived from the Millennium Declaration, which was signed by 189 countries, the MDGs benefit from international political support. As such, they reflect an unprecedented commitment by the world’s leaders to tackle the most basic forms of injustice and inequality in our world: poverty, illiteracy and ill-health.
The health-related MDGs do not cover all the health issues that matter to poor people and poor countries. But they do serve as markers of the most basic challenges ahead: to stop women dying during pregnancy and child birth; to protect young children from ill-health and death; and to tackle the major communicable diseases, in particular HIV/AIDS…..”
World Health Organization 2005
PDF online [84p.] at: http://www.who.int/mdg/publications/MDG_Report_08_2005.pdf
Recommended by Ana Lucia Ruggiero, PAHO
“……The eight Millennium Development Goals represent a unique global compact. Derived from the Millennium Declaration, which was signed by 189 countries, the MDGs benefit from international political support. As such, they reflect an unprecedented commitment by the world’s leaders to tackle the most basic forms of injustice and inequality in our world: poverty, illiteracy and ill-health.
The health-related MDGs do not cover all the health issues that matter to poor people and poor countries. But they do serve as markers of the most basic challenges ahead: to stop women dying during pregnancy and child birth; to protect young children from ill-health and death; and to tackle the major communicable diseases, in particular HIV/AIDS…..”
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