Monday, July 6, 2009

[EQ] The Millennium Development Goals Report 2009

The Millennium Development Goals Report 2009


Recent gains in eradicating hunger and poverty endangered by economic and food crises, says UN report

 

United Nations, 2009

 

Available online PDF [60p.] at: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/MDG%20Report%202009%20ENG.pdf

 

6 July, Geneva  “…..More than halfway to the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), major advances in the fight against poverty and hunger have begun to slow or even reverse as a result of the global economic and food crises, a progress report by the United Nations has found. The assessment, launched by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Geneva, warns that, despite many successes, overall progress has been too slow for most of the targets to be met by 2015….”

 

Press release; http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/PR%20Global%20MDG09%20ENG.pdf

 

Regional press releases:
Latin America , North Africa , Western Asia ,Sub-Saharan Africa , CIS

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[EQ] Innovations in Global Health in the New Political Era

GLOBAL HEALTH GOVERNANCE

Volume II, Issue 2: Fall 2008 / Spring 2009 - http://www.ghgj.org

Innovations in Global Health in the New Political Era
Guest Editors: Devi Sridhar and Larry Gostin

Introduction
- Devi Sridhar is a Fellow in Politics at All Souls College, Oxford, and a Visiting Fellow at the Munich Centre on Governance.
- Larry Gostin is Linda D. and Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Global Health Law, Faculty Director,
  O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law,Georgetown University, and Professor, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

“…….With the cyclical nature of priority-setting, it seems unlikely that global health will be able to retain its momentum into the future leading to a general feeling that this is the “moment of opportunity” or “tipping point” to push forward key reforms and changes in the global health architecture. In addition, a new Administration in the United States provides hope that there is a chance to reinvigorate multilateralism in health, for example through the World Health Organization.

Given the major opportunities this particular time in history offers, we decided to focus this special issue on “innovations in health in a new political era.” We invited eight of the top thinkers in global health to articulate what the key challenges in global health are, and put forward their vision on what the world might and could look like in the new political era…..”

After the Revolution, Global Health Politics in a Time of Economic Crisis and Threatening Future Trends
- David Fidler

Global Health: Where to Now?
- Solomon Benatar

Are Existing Governance Structures Equipped to Deal with Today's Global Health Challenges? Towards Systematic Coherence in Scaling-Up
- Devi Sridhar, Sanjeev Khagram, and Tikki Pang

The Global Role of the World Health Organization
- Jennifer Prah Ruger and Derek Yach

Opportunities for the Obama Administration and the G20 “to Do Good” for Global Health
- Sisule Musungu

Healthcare Reform that Works for the U.S. and the World’s Poor
- Thomas Pogge

Medicines as Global Public Goods: The Governance of Technological Innovation in the New Era of Global Health
- Suerie Moon

Health Worker Shortages and Inequalities: The Reform of United States Policy
- Paula O’Brien and Larry Gostin

Book Review
Kent Buse, Wolfgang Hein, and Nick Drager, editors. Making Sense of Global Health Governance – A Policy Perspective. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Layla Yüzen

 

 

 

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