The Challenges of Achieving the Health MDGs in the African Region

摘要

The year 2000 Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) represent the most important commitment and set of development objectives for the world, particularly in the area of health. Indeed, six of the eight MDGs deal with health to a greater or lesser extent, with three (MDGs 4, 5 and 6) focusing exclusively on health and a further three on specific aspects of health (underweight children, water and sanitation and essential medicines).