The 18th Sustainable Development Goal

Nutrition: a quintessential sustainable development goal.

In the fi nal paper of our 2008 Lancet Series on maternal and child undernutrition, Saul Morris and colleagues wrote that, “The international nutrition system—made up of international and donor organisations, academia, civil society, and the private sector—is fragmented and dysfunctional”. They concluded that, incredibly, no evidence base existed to prioritise actions to improve nutrition. And ...

Grand convergence: a future sustainable development goal?

Sustainable Development

Abstract This research has aimed to examine the feedback effects between economic growth and environmental degradation through health that is one of human capital elements and also the consequences of such these relationships on economic convergence process during the period 1990-2013 for 60 developing countries in framework of simultaneous equations model by using unbalanced panel data analysi...

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 3: challenges in HIV testing in the Eastern Mediterranean Region.

In the era prior to antiretroviral therapy (ART), taking an HIV test was associated with great fear, as a diagnosis of HIV infection signaled imminent death (1). As we mark World AIDS Day on 1 December 2017, it is worth reflecting on the success over the last two decades whereby treatment for HIV infection has become safer, more effective and simpler as new regimens with fixed combinations of a...

Political Criteria for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Selection and the Role of the Urban Dimension

A flood of ideas and proposals on the shape and selection of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has begun to rise since 2012. This article looks at some of them, trying to understand which kind of ―boundary work‖ between science and policy is done here. Starting with a reflection on the epistemological and practical implications of ―discussing SDGs‖, it primarily addresses scientists, but als...