Ten years have passed since the Millennium Summit convened in New York in which 192 member countries of the United Nations set eight goals. For the first time, the international development agenda put a date to achieve concrete agreements and measurable. Five years after the end of the period, it is provided no glimpse of hope that the objectives are achieved.
With the introduction of target 5 was proposed to reduce, between 1990 and 2015, maternal mortality by three quarters. We just celebrated Mother's Day while we knew that 343 000 women die each year from complications during pregnancy or childbirth. Deaths occur mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
To better understand the situation, we must note that in 7 women who are pregnant in Niger one dies in childbirth, while in Spain dies one per 16 400 women giving birth. Given these figures we can understand the gaps in health services of developing countries. The paradox is that this data is repeated every year, causing as a result that is the objective of this millennium that less progress.
Other objectives are better in terms of funding. Goal 6 covers the arrest and reducing the spread of HIV / AIDS, malaria and other diseases. To this end, governments and official development assistance have increased their budgets in recent years. Yet despite this aid, three million people die each year from illness related to AIDS. More than one million, from malaria. Too many lives lost.
These figures are alarming. Faced with such negative information is envisioned that no progress in health in developing countries. The international community should demonstrate with NGOs to demand that our governments do not laugh at the most disadvantaged and meet their targets for 2015.
With the introduction of target 5 was proposed to reduce, between 1990 and 2015, maternal mortality by three quarters. We just celebrated Mother's Day while we knew that 343 000 women die each year from complications during pregnancy or childbirth. Deaths occur mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
To better understand the situation, we must note that in 7 women who are pregnant in Niger one dies in childbirth, while in Spain dies one per 16 400 women giving birth. Given these figures we can understand the gaps in health services of developing countries. The paradox is that this data is repeated every year, causing as a result that is the objective of this millennium that less progress.
Other objectives are better in terms of funding. Goal 6 covers the arrest and reducing the spread of HIV / AIDS, malaria and other diseases. To this end, governments and official development assistance have increased their budgets in recent years. Yet despite this aid, three million people die each year from illness related to AIDS. More than one million, from malaria. Too many lives lost.
These figures are alarming. Faced with such negative information is envisioned that no progress in health in developing countries. The international community should demonstrate with NGOs to demand that our governments do not laugh at the most disadvantaged and meet their targets for 2015.
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