The sustainable development goals (SDGs) offer a unique opportunity for policy-makers to build on the millennium development goals (MDGs) by adopting more sustainable approaches to addressing global development challenges. The delivery of health services is of particular concern. Most African countries are unlikely to achieve the health MDGs, however, significant progress has been made particul...

40 Dear sir, In general, environmental sanitation covers arrangements for drainage of rainwater and effluents, collection and disposal of garbage and removal of human excreta. The World Health organization (WHO) defines environmental sanitation as “the control of all those factors in man’s physical environment, which exercise or may exercise a deleterious effect on his physical development, hea...

the sustainable development goals (sdgs) offer a unique opportunity for policy-makers to build on the millennium development goals (mdgs) by adopting more sustainable approaches to addressing global development challenges. the delivery of health services is of particular concern. most african countries are unlikely to achieve the health mdgs, however, significant progress has been made particul...

1. The Millennium Development Goals two-thirds (in relation to the 1990 baseline) or maternal deaths by three-quarters. Reversing the There is only a decade remaining in which to attain the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) (Table 1). These goals have the unprecedented support of 189 nations and are a mechanism for holding rich and poor nations accountable for global development...

This report was commissioned by the Population Program of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in December 2004. The author was charged with analyzing the United Nations' deliberations that led to the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to answer the question of why there is no specific reproductive health goal. Her report, of which this is a lightly edited version, is also ...

The present Millennium Development Goals are set to expire in 2015 and their next iteration is now being discussed within the international community. With regards to health, the World Health Organization proposes universal health coverage as a 'single overarching health goal' for the next iteration of the Millennium Development Goals.The present Millennium Development Goals have been criticise...