Progress towards the millennium development goals in SA.

Improving the World’s Health through the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Perspectives from Rwanda

The world has made a great deal of progress through the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to improve the health and well-being of people around the globe, but there remains a long way to go. Here we provide reflections on Rwanda’s experience in working to meet the health-related targets of the MDGs. This experience has informed our proposal of five guiding principles that may be useful for co...

Millennium Development Goals: China’s Progress Secretary & Administration Group,the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development

In 2000 ， China and other 188 UN member counties jointly signed the Millennium Declaration (hereafter referred to Declaration). According to the commitment, China will make efforts to achieve a set of objectives of the Millennium Development Goals, mainly including the following 8 aspects: 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger 2. Achieve Universal Primary Education 3. Promote Gender Equality ...

Monitoring the millennium development goals: the potential role of the INDEPTH Network

The Millennium Declaration, adopted by the United Nations (UN) in 2000, set a series of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as priorities for UN member countries, committing governments to realising eight major MDGs and 18 associated targets by 2015. Progress towards these goals is being assessed by tracking a series of 48 technical indicators that have since been unanimously adopted by experts...

Progress towards the Millennium Development Goals,1990-2005 Goal 5: Improve maternal health

From home to hospital, a continuum of care: making progress towards Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 in rural Bangladesh.

The Lutheran Aid to Medicine in Bangladesh (LAMB) health and development project in rural Bangladesh has developed an integrated maternal and child healthcare system providing appropriate, accessible and affordable health services for the poor, through a home-to-hospital, continuum-of-care approach. LAMB is thus an example of how high-quality maternity health services accessible to women of all...