October blog Claudio Schuftan At the two-thirds point between 2000 and 2015, at a summit at UN headquarters in New York, the United Nations has just completed its assessment and review of the Millennium Development Goals. The Lancet has taken this opportunity to publish an appraisal of the MDGs, now and for the future, prepared by a distinguished group of London-based academics (1). The latter is critical of what it sees as the somewhat slow progress that has been made towards the achievement of the Goals, and also to some extent is critical of the Goals themselves. We, at the Peoples’ Health Movement, have been for long saying that the MDGs, and the thinking behind them, are problematic. While this month’s column is by me, it also expresses the considered views of the PHM which, I believe, has more than any other organisation earned the right to speak for the people who a...
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