PHM-Exch> Equity as a shared vision for health and development

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) <ruglucia at paho.org>
crossposted from: EQUIDAD at listserv.paho.org


 *Equity as a shared vision for health and development

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*The Lancet, Volume 376, Issue 9745, Page 929, 18 September 2010
*doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61431-6

 Website: http://bit.ly/8XbHjk

 “……In 2000, 189 countries signed up to the UN Millennium Declaration—a
global commitment to halve extreme poverty and achieve equitable and
sustainable development for all. The agreement led to the creation of a
historic framework centred around eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),
designed to tackle poverty, education, gender, health, environment, and
global partnerships—all to be met by 2015.



On September 20—22, world leaders will gather in New York to attend the UN
MDG review summit, to renew commitments and determine how to accelerate
progress in the coming years. Overall, progress is uneven, with some
regions, especially in the poorer countries, lagging woefully behind.
Clearly, it cannot be business as usual in the next 5 years if the promises
made a decade ago are to be met.



This week's Lancet publishes the results of a Commission jointly supported
by The Lancet and the London International Development Centre (LIDC). The
Millenium Development Goals: a cross-sectoral analysis and principles for
goal setting after 2015 uses a cross-cutting analysis to examine the origins
of the goals and targets, their strengths and weaknesses, and the challenges
of implementing them. …..”



*The MDG decade: looking back and conditional optimism for 2015*

Jeffrey Sachs:
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(10)61440-7/fulltext

 *The Millennium Development Goals: a cross-sectoral analysis and principles
for goal setting after 2015*

Jeff Waage, Rukmini Banerji, Oona Campbell, Ephraim Chirwa, Guy Collender,
Veerle Dieltiens, Andrew Dorward, Peter Godfrey-Faussett, Piya
Hanvoravongchai, Geeta Kingdon, Angela Little, Anne Mills, Kim Mulholland,
Alwyn Mwinga, Amy North, Walaiporn Patcharanarumol, Colin Poulton, Viroj
Tangcharoensathien, Elaine Unterhalter

 Website:
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(10)61196-8/fulltext

The Lancet, Volume 376, Issue 9745, Pages 991 - 1023, 18 September 2010

 “…The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) represent an unprecedented global
consensus about measures to reduce poverty.
The eight goals address targets to increase incomes; reduce hunger; achieve
universal primary education; eliminate gender inequality; reduce maternal
and child mortality; reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and
malaria; reverse the loss of natural resources and biodiversity; improve
access to water, sanitation, and good housing; and establish effective
global partnerships….”
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