Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
The MDGs include maternal health and HIV and AIDS targets and indicators, however their exclusion of SRH and rights as found in the ICPD, is considered to be an obstruction to achieving the overarching MDGs. It has therefore been challenged from many quarters. The 2004 New York Call to Commitment (http://www.unfpa.org/upload/lib_pub_file/321_filename_New York Call to Commitment.pdf) by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), reflects international commitment to increasing linkages between SRH and HIV and AIDS, and to consolidating the association between the MDGs and ICPD.
- Meeting Millennium Development Goals 3 and 5
- ( B.N. Simwaka; S. Theobald; Y.P. Amekudzi; R. Tolhurst / British Medical Journal , 2005)
- This article, taken from the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Africa issue, calls for gender equality to be put on the African agenda. The authors point out that of all the Millennium Development Goals...
- Country profiles for population and reproductive health: policy developments and indicators, 2005
- ( United Nations Population Fund , 2005)
- These profiles present information on the population policy and reproductive health programme situation in each country in five regions. It looks at the need in almost all countries to expand consider...
- Interim report of task force 4 on child health and maternal health
- ( L. Freedman; M. Wirth; R. Waldman; M. Chowdhury; A. Rosenfied / Millennium Project , 2004)
- Important gains were made in the area of child survival during the second half of the twentieth century. However, in many parts of the world, mortality declines have slowed or stagnated; in others th...
