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Was it a flaw of the MDG initiative that it didn't really tackle chronic diseases?

The Asia-Pacific region also has a good chance of reaching the MDG target if it can accelerate progress slightly over the next few years.

So the MDG exercise has at least made them spend three days discussing matters they might prefer to ignore.

Through such efforts, Ghana is making steady progress toward the United Nations Millennium Development Goal (MDG) for safe drinking water.

Overall, the gains remain too slow, yet specific and accelerated investments in the poor countries can still deliver the MDGs on schedule.

The UN's MDG report says a number of anti-poverty goals and targets are likely to be missed.

There are few good data with which to establish TB prevalence and death rates between the MDG baseline year of 1990 and 2004.

Second, expanded vaccination coverage alone will not help countries reach the MDG for reducing young child mortality.

MDG Monitor tracks progress toward the MDGs in a number of categories in nearly every country in the world.

Unfortunately, underweight is the indicator officially used to monitor progress towards MDG 1.

As a compromise, the document says people living under foreign occupation should also reach the MDG targets.

Q: Under-five child mortality must be reduced by two thirds by 2015 to meet MDG 4. Was this target unrealistic when it was set?

Overall, Africa is still the region finding it hardest to meet the MDGs.

Despite these challenges, political will and public pressure have contributed in crucial ways to efforts to meet the MDGs.

There is no one-to-one link between science and the achievement of MDGs as I see it, I think it's a very complex relationship.

Donors should measure and report the share of their ODA that supports the actual scale-up of MDG-related investments.

Q: The MDG to reduce malaria is a major goal, but how will we know whether we attain it as there is no reliable baseline from 1990?

The fourth Millennium Development Goal (MDG) is to reduce the 1990 mortality rate among under-five children by two thirds.

In each of the areas where there is a health-related MDG, there must be clear targets.

Ebb Tide, this time we will present to you a new MDG International, a global campaign to take your international MDG.

Yet the role of biomedicine in meeting the MDGs is far from over.

MDG target 8 (of 18) is to have halted and begun to reverse the TB incidence rate by 2015.

The region will need to step up the pace dramatically to reach the MDG target.

This builds grassroots support, another lesson for the MDG agenda.

Its government may well find the MDG exercise mildly discouraging.

Visit Millennium Development Goals for some background information on the MDG process.

Science has played an extremely important role because of the issue of the impact of climate change on the potential fulfilment of MDGs.

The world is on track to achieve the MDG target on access to safe drinking-water but more needs to be done to achieve the sanitation target.

The choice of indicator affects the conclusions regarding which countries are on track to reach MDG 1.

United States have not been so eager to use MDG 4.

Achieving MDG 5 requires reducing maternal mortality at a much faster rate in the future than it was reduced between 1990 and 2005.

The fourth Millennium Development Goal (MDG 4) aims to reduce the under-five mortality rate by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015.

Child mortality is also closely linked to MDG 5 to improve maternal health.

Existing science and technology have done a lot for the MDGs.

This average annual decrease of less than 1% is far below the 5. 5% annual decline that is required to achieve MDG 5.

These commitments have been hard won and are encouraging many African and other developing countries to plan around MDG achievement.

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Supporting effective implementation fostering country partnerships towards MDG achievements;

Meeting the MDG drinking water and sanitation target: the urban and rural challenge of the decade

To dramatically reduce the global burden of TB by 2015 in line with the Millennium Development Goals and the Stop TB Partnership targets

MDG 3 aims to reduce gender-based discrimination by promoting gender equality and women's empowerment in critical areas

UN Delivered the Five Years Progress Report on MDG

Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation (MDG 7, target 7. C)

Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 6, Target 8: Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of TB by 2015;

In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential medicines in developing countries (MDG 8, target 8. E)