Towards Reaching the Health-Related Millennium Development Goals: Progress Report And the Way Forward
Resumo
In 2000, world leaders adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration and the millenniumdevelopment goals (MDGs), setting the year 2015 as the date for reaching the targets. The MDGsconstituted an unprecedented commitment by world leaders to comprehensively address peace,security, development, human rights and fundamental freedoms.2. Three of the eight MDGs are health goals: they are Goal 4, Reduce child mortality; Goal 5,Improve maternal health; and Goal 6, Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases. Several otherMDGs are monitored through health-related indicators; they include Goal 1, Eradicate poverty andhunger; Goal 7, Ensure environmental sustainability; and Goal 8, Develop a global partnership fordevelopment (see the table in Annex A for an updated list).3. Significant commitments to the MDGs have been demonstrated by countries of the WHOAfrican Region. Examples of these commitments include the Abuja Declaration of 2001 requestingcountries to allocate 15% of public expenditures to the health sector; the 2005 WHO RegionalCommittee for Africa resolution on achieving the millennium development goals;1 and the 2008Ouagadougou Declaration on Primary Health Care and Health Systems in Africa.2 Similarcommitments have been demonstrated by development partners through the United NationsSecretary-General's MDGs Africa Initiative and the Harmonization for Health in Africa mechanism.Citação
Regional Committee for Africa, 59. (2009). Towards Reaching the Health-Related Millennium Development Goals: Progress Report And the Way Forward. WHO. Regional Office for Africa. https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/92229