BMJ  2005;331:1093-1094 (12 November), doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7525.1093

Editorial

Are cost effective interventions enough to achieve the millennium development goals?

Money, infrastructure, and information are also vital

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At a high level forum in Paris this month policy makers are meeting to discuss the financial sustainability and coordination of activities essential for achieving the millennium development goals. Building on other targets set in the 1990s, such as those at the 1990 UN children's summit, these ambitious goals agreed by 189 countries aim to markedly reduce poverty and hunger and improve education and health throughout the world by 2015. But many less developed countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia, are falling short of the target to reduce child mortality by 4.4% a year, the rate required to cut deaths among children less than 5 years old by two thirds (from the 1990 level) by 2015.¹

To invest effectively in achieving the goals policy makers need robust evidence. Here, in a series of articles in the BMJ, David Evans and colleagues provide that evidence.^{2 w1-w7} Along with . . . [Full text of this article]

(suwit@health.moph.go.th)
Ministry of Public Health, Tivanond Road, Nonthaburi 11000, Thailand

Ministry of Public Health, Tivanond Road, Nonthaburi 11000, Thailand

Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, Salaya, Phutthamonthon, Nakhorn Pathom 73170, Thailand

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