According to various reports by the UN and other organizations, Africa is facing big challenges in achieving world's anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This prompted a study Muleba Matafwali (2010) which aimed at enhancing understanding that communication plays very critical role quest attain development Zambia. Key findings were Twenty-Five point Five percent (25.5%) of responde...

background it has been shown that trend of achieving to millennium development goal 4 (mdg 4), varies by region and between countries, indicating the possibility of existing different barriers and/or facilitators. objectives this study aimed to evaluate the trend of under five mortality rate (u5mr), and infant mortality rate (imr) and explore the main challenges to reach mdg 4 by 2015. patients...

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which include eight goals were framed to address the world's major development challenges with health and its related areas as the prime focus. In India, considerable progress has been made in the field of basic universal education, gender equality in education, and global economic growth. However there is slow progress in the improvement of health indica...

Correspondence and reprint requests should be addressed to: Dr. C. John Clements 89 Wimborne Drive Melbourne, VIC 3930 Australia Email: [email protected] While the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) represent ambitious targets for reducing poverty by 2015, measuring whether the goals have been reached is problematic, particularly for the most populous developing countries. The provinces/ states...

OBJECTIVE To audit the knowledge of doctors and evaluate their disposition toward the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). MATERIALS AND METHODS Semi-structured questionnaires requesting information about knowledge of the acronym "MDGs" were administered on willing doctors at three tertiary health centers: University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Federal Medical Centre, Bida,...

Developing countries are devising various strategies and mechanisms to accelerate their speed towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. In Nigeria, different approaches have been used to address the tackling of health-related MDGs. One creative approach has been the implementation of the NHIS Maternal and Child Health (NHIS-MCH) Project. The project aims to speed up the achieveme...

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) represent the widest commitment in history to addressing global poverty and ill health. The fourth goal (MDG-4) commits the international community to reducing mortality in children aged younger than 5 years by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015. The first goal (MDG-1) pertaining to eradicate extreme hunger and poverty includes prevalence of underweight childre...

In 2014, UN Member States proposed a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as reference goals for the international development community for the period 2015-2030. The proposed goals and targets can be seen as a network, in which links among goals exist through targets that refer to multiple goals. Using network analysis techniqu...

As 2015 quickly approaches, we have been made increasingly aware of our progress toward Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However, one MDG has been particularly recalcitrant to progress: MDG 5, namely, improving maternal health. Few countries are on track to achieve the first part of MDG 5's goals, reducing maternal mortality by 75%. This article addresses the key priority issues of maternal...

Correspondence and reprint requests should be addressed to: Dr. C. John Clements 89 Wimborne Drive Melbourne, VIC 3930 Australia Email: [email protected] While the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) represent ambitious targets for reducing poverty by 2015, measuring whether the goals have been reached is problematic, particularly for the most populous developing countries. The provinces/ states...