Editorial: Millennium Development Goals: Lessons Learnt and the Way Forward

Millennium Development Goals: Lessons Learnt and the Way Forward

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) agenda crafted in 2001 targeting prominent challenges the world facing. These are eight international development goals to be achieved by 2015 addressing poverty, hunger, maternal and child mortality, communicable disease, education, gender inequality, environmental damage and the global partnership. This framework has laid ground by setting quantitative ...

Successes and challenges of the millennium development goals in Ethiopia: lessons for the sustainable development goals

We analysed the performance of Ethiopia in achieving the health-related millennium development goals (MDGs) with the aim of acquiring lessons for the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Ethiopia achieved most of the health MDGs: a 67% reduction in under-five mortality, a 71% decline in maternal mortality ratio, a 90% decline in new HIV infections, a decrease in malaria-related deaths by 73% a...

Millennium development goals: lessons for global mental health.

The United Nations (UN) is negotiating the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the predecessors of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). There is now an opportunity to include one of the disease categories with the greatest impact on the global burden of disease (GBD), namely mental illness. This letter presents the case for the inclusion of mental health within the SDGs, drawn f...

Prevention of viral hepatitis in Germany and the Nordic Countries: lessons learnt and the way forward

Prevention and control of viral hepatitis in Spain: Lessons learnt and the way forward