Maternal health is one of the main global health challenges and reduction of the maternal mortality ratio, from the present 0.6 mio. per year, by three-quarters by 2015 is the target for the fifth Millennium Development Goal (MDG 5). However this goal is the one towards which the least progress has been made. There is not a simple and straight-forward intervention, which by itself will bring ma...

Key messages • The adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) at the turn of the century represented the successful inauguration of an effort to expand the focus beyond economic growth so as to encompass human development. As a result of rapid economic expansion and improved social policies in many developing countries, the MDG target of halving extreme poverty by 2015 globally had bee...

Reduction in prevalence of underweight children (under five years of age) has been included as an indicator for one of the targets to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger (Goal 1) of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The most recent MDG report of 2012 indicates that the target of reducing extreme poverty by half has been reached five years ahead of the 2015 deadline but close to one thir...

354 www.thelancet.com Vol 369 February 3, 2007 Return of the Population Growth Factor: its impact on the Millennium Development Goals, a report of hearings held in the UK Parliament in 2006, focuses on the devastating impact of population growth on the Millennium Dev elopment Goals (MDGs). The report was released on Jan 31. The Inquiry Chairman, Richard Ottaway, Mem ber of Parliament (MP), conc...

In September 2000, 189 nations committed to working towards measurable targets to reduce poverty and achieve the basic needs and rights of all. However, the UN’s 2010 Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Report recognised that most of the eight MDGs are not on track to be achieved by the proposed 2015 deadline. Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary General, stated that ‘improvements in the lives of the poor ...

• methods for strengthening routine TB surveillance; • ways to improve and standardize the analysis of surveillance data; • where surveys of infection and active disease have already been done, and should be done in future; • the comparative merits of surveys of infection and active disease (with reference to surveillance data); • how to set standards for carrying out prevalence surveys (of bot...

Malaria, as a key disease of poverty, was singled out for special attention in the Millennium Project of 2000. Recent data suggest that malaria incidence and mortality are now declining all over the world. While these figures are cause for celebration, they must be interpreted carefully and with caution, particularly in relation to Africa. There are daunting challenges ahead for those working t...

Context: The millennium development goals (MDG) are global committed efforts to provide anti-poverty and disparity document. During the past 15 years and based on MDGs, nearly all countries have made efforts to achieve its related goals. Therefore, the current narrative review aimed to analyze the MDGs’ challenge and achievements with the focus on Islamic Republic of Iran. Evidence Acquisition:...

in Dhaka a review of some major health issues of Bangladesh—at least those in which ICDDR,B has expertise. The aim of this review was to identify selected key issues, try to understand the trends over the last one to two decade(s), and to interpret these trends in the light of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It was hoped these trends would show that Bangladesh was on target to meet these g...

To cite: Vince JD. Arch Dis Child 2015;100(Suppl 1): s63–s65. For the purposes of this commentary, Oceania is understood to encompass the Pacific Island states of Micronesia, Polynesia and Melanesia including Papua New Guinea (PNG) (but excluding the western half of mainland New Guinea, politically a province of Indonesia), Timor Leste, Australia and New Zealand. In geopolitical Oceania (which ...