Millennium Development Goal #4 - reduce child mortality

Jeffrey K. Edwards posted a photo:

Millennium Development Goal #4 - reduce child mortality

"In September 2000, 189 heads of state adopted the UN Millennium Declaration and endorsed a framework for development. The plan was for countries and development partners to work together to reduce poverty and hunger, tackle ill-health, gender inequality, lack of education, lack of access to clean water and environmental degradation."

Since the implementation of the MDGs, there has been significant progress in improved health across traditional outcomes measures globally. However, there remains a great separation between the goal of "health care for all" as a human right and reality, that will not be achieved by 2015 - even here within the US....


Ref: Millennium Developmental Goals: progress towards the health-realted MDGs. World Health Organization: www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs290/en/index.html


Captured with: d700, 24-70mm, f/4.0, 1/250, ISO 200, 70mm. Taken in the remote village of Patchakan, Belize, July 2010.


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