Millennium Development Goals water target claim exaggerates achievement

Millennium Development Goals: background.

To cite: Chopra M, Mason E. Arch Dis Child 2015;100(Suppl 1):s2–s4. INTRODUCTION The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) arose from one of the largest ever gathering of world leaders in New York in September 2000. Collectively, 189 countries adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration, which evolved into the MDG. These ambitious targets—ranging from halving extreme poverty and reducing mat...

Flagging global sanitation target threatens other Millennium Development Goals.

News region as " deplorable. " Many have lost all their possessions and are living in the open without any facilities. Although huge numbers of people are injured, there is no medical care, said WFP staff. " It is a very, very alarming situation, " said Getachew Diriba, WFP Senior Programme Officer for Sudan, who had recently visited the region with a delegation from the European Union. " No ma...

Financing the Millennium Development Goals for Water and Sanitation:

Maternal mortality: A challenge in achieving Millennium Development Goals

Introduction: Reducing the labour by an unskilful person is an important strategy in promotion of mother's health and reducing the maternal mortality as the fifth millennium development goals. Methods: This retrospective and descriptive study was accomplishd in 2010.The samples were 189 Iranian mothers with labour by unskilful person in urban and rural area affiliated to Mashhad University of M...

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. ...