UN millennium health goals will not be achieved, report warns

doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7515.474-a

BMJ 2005;331:474 (3 September), doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7515.474-a

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UN millennium health goals will not be achieved, report warns

Geneva Paul Ress

The health objectives of the United Nations� millennium development goals will not be achieved by 2015 unless investments in national health systems are "dramatically increased" and many more doctors, nurses, midwives, and other health professionals are made available. That is the warning from the World Health Organization in its latest report evaluating progress towards the goals.

The 82 page report says that unless these goals are met "large numbers of people will continue to die of mostly preventable diseases."

It says that among the "annual avoidable deaths in developing countries will be those of 10.6 million children under five, hundreds of thousands of victims of malaria, and more than half a million women in pregnancy and childbirth." The AIDS pandemic kills more than three million people worldwide every year.

Of the eight goals agreed by 189 world leaders at their summit in 2000, three relate to health: . . . [Full text of this article]

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