Alcohol, poverty and the South African city
In the past decade, a sense of urgency has started to pervade alcohol regulation in South Africa. The burden of alcohol-related mortality and morbidity is among the highest in the world, and its effects
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World health statistics 2012
World Health Statistics 2012 contains WHO’s annual compilation of health-related data for its 194 Member States, and includes a summary of the progress made towards achieving the health-related Millennium
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Citizens versus extreme poverty
If voluntary organisations were to make a massive effort to take up the millennium development goals, the world's citizens can make deep inroads in the fight against disease, hunger and poverty, says
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Thinking beyond sectors for sustainable development
The book provides a concise introduction to the debates in a number of vital development sectors in view of the move from the era of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development
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6pc forest cover by 2010
Under the millennium development goals and the national forest policy, we are committed to increase the forest cover from the existing 4.8 per cent to six per cent by the year 2010, said Minister for
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The farms of change: African smallholders responding to an uncertain climate future
The report calls for donors and government to boost investment in climate change resilience, to avoid problems that would have catastrophic results on African development such as major food shortages,
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Industry body seeks new health policy
Industry chamber Phdcci has stressed on the need for the government to provide a conducive regulatory health policy and an enabling legislative environment to attain the Millennium Development Goals
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Stillbirths: rates, risk factors, and acceleration towards 2030
An estimated 2·6 million third trimester stillbirths occurred in 2015 (uncertainty range 2·4–3·0 million). The number of stillbirths has reduced more slowly than has maternal mortality or mortality in
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Sustainable development should be key to achieving MDG targets
The developing countries may not be able to meet the UN Millennium Development Goals for poverty reduction by 2015 with this present nature and the rate of development. The UN Millennium Project
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Reaching for the SDGs: the unfulfilled potential of Tanzania’s water Supply, sanitation, and hygiene sector- executive summary
The purpose of the document is to lay out the findings from this diagnostic exercise. Its key messages include stressing the need to reach higher to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets
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Govt confident it'll achieve millenium goals in time
The Centre said the country will achieve the eight millennium development goals (mdgs) adopted by the UN to strengthen social infrastructure within the stipulated time-frame and funds will not stand
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Improving women's health through universal health coverage
With the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expiring in 2015, the world awaits a new, ambitious framework for improving lives. This framework must pass the vital test of reducing inequalities, especially
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Question raised in Lok Sabha on Cases of tuberculosis, 18/12/2015
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Cases of tuberculosis, 18/12/2015. As per the World Health Organization (WHO) Global TB report 2015, in the year 2014, 2.2 million cases were estimated in India which is
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Study shows Nepal likely to meet Millennium Development Goal for maternal health
The Government of Nepal, U.S.
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"India fails to achieve millennium goals''
Member-countries of the United Nations, including India have failed to take action to achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted in the year 2000, according to an assessment report by Action
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Global tuberculosis report 2015
This is the twentieth global report on tuberculosis (TB) published by WHO in a series that started in 1997. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and progress in implementing
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Poverty, inequality, and evaluation: changing perspectives
The basic premise of this report is that the conversation on the future of development needs to shift from a focus on poverty to that of inequality. The poverty emphasis is in an intellectual and political
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UN workshop on MDG
Secretary Finance and Planning Ministry P. B. Jayasundera addressing the opening sessions of the UN workshop on Millennium Development Goals Based National Development Strategies stressed the need
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The global partnership for development: Time to deliver
With only four years remaining in which to achieve the key targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), most of the world’s Heads of State and Government came to the United Nations in September
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Achieving the malaria MDG target: reversing the incidence of malaria 2000–2015
Malaria death rates have plunged by 60% since 2000, translating into 6.2 million lives saved, the vast majority of them children, according to a joint WHO-UNICEF report released today. The report – “Achieving