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2015 Millennium Devt Goals Worry World Bank
� � Nigeria to host health summit From Nneoma Ukeje-Eloagu in Washington DC, 11.11.2004
A World Bank report "Rising to the Challenges: The Millennium Development Goals for Health" has warned that with just 10 years left before the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), more help is needed to fix inadequate health care delivery systems, train more health care workers, and supply more aid to developing countries in dire need of support. Without these according, to the report, the world does not stand a realistic chance of reaching health millennium development goals. The report released yesterday in Washington DC, also identifies steps which developing countries can take, along with wealthy donors and development agencies, to speed up national progress towards meeting the 2015 health challenges. To this end, leaders in international development, including those from developing countries, United Nations (UN) agencies, bilateral donors, and charitable foundations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will meet shortly in Abuja, Nigeria, to build on the policy recommendations in the just released World Bank report, and identify urgent follow-up actions, to drive progress more quickly towards the 2015 health goals. The conference, the second in a series called the High-Level Forum on the Health MDGs, will be hosted jointly by the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and the Government of Nigeria. A summary review of the report shows that many developing countries are falling behind in the race to sharply lower the numbers of deaths among pregnant women and children under the age of five, by the year 2015 as more than 11 million children died in 2002 before reaching their fifth birthday from preventable illness while about 500,000 women perished during pregnancy or childbirth. It also notes that the situation is particularly distressing as many of the "technologies" needed to improve health are available and affordable, and that even in countries with little money, and few health facilities to go with it, sensible and systematic efforts to improve health can work. To curb the danger, the World Bank recommends increasing health spending, for developing countries with money and services targeted at people who need them the most. It also recommends that health systems be strengthened to better distribute life-savings drugs and treatments, while more medical staff need to be trained to offset the steady 'brain-drain' loss of doctors, nurses, and others to more affluent countries in developed countries. Donor countries are also urged to do better than they have in the past and work together better both to raise more money for aid, and to ensure that advice given to poor countries is consistent. The report also says that too often foreign aid for health is too unpredictable, and the transaction costs are too high. It further notes that the amount donors provide; their long term commitment, sustainability and predictability of funding in the delivery of aid are key issues.
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