Equity as a shared vision for health and development
The Lancet, Volume 376, Issue 9745, Page 929, 18 September 2010
doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61431-6
Website: http://bit.ly/8XbHjk
“……In 2000, 189 countries signed up to the UN Millennium Declaration—a global commitment to halve extreme poverty and achieve equitable and sustainable development for all. The agreement led to the creation of a historic framework centred around eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), designed to tackle poverty, education, gender, health, environment, and global partnerships—all to be met by 2015.
On September 20—22, world leaders will gather in New York to attend the UN MDG review summit, to renew commitments and determine how to accelerate progress in the coming years. Overall, progress is uneven, with some regions, especially in the poorer countries, lagging woefully behind. Clearly, it cannot be business as usual in the next 5 years if the promises made a decade ago are to be met.
This week's Lancet publishes the results of a Commission jointly supported by The Lancet and the London International Development Centre (LIDC). The Millenium Development Goals: a cross-sectoral analysis and principles for goal setting after 2015 uses a cross-cutting analysis to examine the origins of the goals and targets, their strengths and weaknesses, and the challenges of implementing them. …..”
The MDG decade: looking back and conditional optimism for 2015
Jeffrey Sachs: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(10)61440-7/fulltext
The Millennium Development Goals: a cross-sectoral analysis and principles for goal setting after 2015
Jeff Waage, Rukmini Banerji, Oona Campbell, Ephraim Chirwa, Guy Collender, Veerle Dieltiens, Andrew Dorward, Peter Godfrey-Faussett, Piya Hanvoravongchai, Geeta Kingdon, Angela Little, Anne Mills, Kim Mulholland, Alwyn Mwinga, Amy North, Walaiporn Patcharanarumol, Colin Poulton, Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Elaine Unterhalter
Website: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(10)61196-8/fulltext
The Lancet, Volume 376, Issue 9745, Pages 991 - 1023, 18 September 2010
“…The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) represent an unprecedented global consensus about measures to reduce poverty.
The eight goals address targets to increase incomes; reduce hunger; achieve universal primary education; eliminate gender inequality; reduce maternal and child mortality; reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria; reverse the loss of natural resources and biodiversity; improve access to water, sanitation, and good housing; and establish effective global partnerships….”
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