The international community is devising a new set of goals to follow the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The new targets will be known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and as you might expect, they are persuasive in their ambition and potential. KATE WOODHEAD RGN DMS reports.
The MDGs were instrumental in bringing health issues to the forefront of international development and many populations have gained significantly from the attention the MDGs have focused on outcomes. At the beginning of the twenty first century, the United Nations Member States agreed the Millennium Development Goals which set the recent direction of travel for societies and the development agenda. Three of the eight MDG goals directly referred to health and, among other goals, were designed to help the poorest people in the world to achieve a better life.
The health goals adopted in 2000 were: reduction in child (under five years) mortality (Goal 4); reduction in maternal mortality and access to reproductive healthcare (Goal 5); and reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria (Goal 6). Progress towards the MDGs has been monitored through a set of 21 measurable and time-bound targets addressing extreme poverty and hunger, education, women’s empowerment and gender equality, health, environmental sustainability and global partnership.1
Substantial progress towards the MDGs has been made globally, although none of the goals can be said to have been totally achieved
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