Millennium Development Goals: progress in Oceania

Millennium Development Goals: progress in Oceania.

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 ...

Millennium Development Goals progress report.

To cite: Beattie RM, Brown NJ, Cass H. Arch Dis Child 2015;100(Suppl 1):s1. This supplement reflects on the progress made towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), with particular respect to child health. The goals, adopted by 189 countries, were set by the United Nations in 2000 and related to what could be achieved by 2015. They highlighted a set of specific targets. ...

Measuring Progress Towards the Millennium Development Goals

• 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...

Brazil's progress in achieving the millennium development goals.

The Government of Brazil has been attaching great importance to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals—(MDGs). Three National Monitoring Reports [1–3] have been produced, based on detailed official data of these goals, as a partnership between the Brazilian Government and the agencies comprising the United Nations System in the country. The Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA...

Progress towards the millennium development goals in SA.