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  Promises, promises: how can the Millennium Development Goals be met?

  Save the Children Fund, 2005

  This briefing explores the progress to date of the health and education MDGs, their implications for children, and makes recommendations for change.The briefing states that a key target - to eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education by 2005 - has been missed, and that this has not been recognised.
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  Killer bills: make child poverty history - abolish user fees

  Save the Children Fund, 2005

  This brief from Save the Children Fund argues that user fees for basic health care, paid in the poorest countries around the world, are in reality "killer bills". It argues that abolishing user fees and covering the relatively small cost of abolition would immediately save the lives of nearly a quarter of a million children under five.
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  80 million lives: meeting the Millennium Development Goals in child and maternal survival

  Save the Children Fund, 2003

  This report, produced by Save the Children on behalf of the Grow Up Free from Poverty Coalition, analyses the progress made towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals on infant and maternal survival. It reveals that the goal of reducing under-five mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015 is unlikely to be met; sub-Saharan Africa is particularly off-track.
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  Health research for equity in global health: statement by the Global Forum for Health Research

  Global Forum for Health Research, 2004

  This statement, published by the Global Forum for Health Research, reports on its eighth annual meeting, held in Mexico City from 16-20 November 2004, which considered how health research could be used to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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  Progress for children: a child survival report card

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2004

  This UNICEF report looks at trends in the indicators for the fourth MDG, which aims for a two-thirds reduction of under-five mortality rates between 1990 and 2015. Tracing back to the 1960s it takes a regional and global analysis to the achievements in reducing child mortality.
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  Impacts of Community Health Insurance Schemes on Health Care Provision in Rural Tanzania

  Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, Bonn, 2004

  This study examines community health funds (CHF) in Tanzania to evaluate the role of community health funds in lowering the barriers to access health care. The authors found that protection by the community schemes drastically increases participants’ demand for health care.
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  Commitments: youth reproductive health, the World Bank, and the Millennium Development Goals

  The Global Health Council, 2004

  This report from the Global Health Council argues that improving the reproductive health of youth is key to achieving all eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and reducing poverty. It also highlights the World Bank’s vital role in these efforts. Links are made between each youth reproductive health issue and the goal or goals which it affects.
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  Can the millennium development goals be attained?

  British Medical Journal, 2004

  This article, published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), focuses on health as central to the achievement of all the millennium development goals (MDGs). Key challenges for health improvement include reversing the global HIV/AIDS epidemic and reducing child and maternal mortality. The authors acknowledge the need for more aid but argue that this is only part of the picture.

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