title: Millennium Development Goals progress: a perspective from sub-Saharan Africa.
abstract: Sub-Saharan Africa is a highly diverse geo-political region. Any brief discussion of the progress made over the last 15 years towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will therefore not do justice to the true complexity of context and events. Our focus will be MDG4-to reduce child mortality by 66% from 1990 levels. We will touch briefly on MDG1, to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, MDG2, to achieve universal primary education, and MDG5, to improve maternal health, which are inextricably linked with child well-being. We will also draw on an eclectic mix of additional global indicators. Acknowledging the limitations of this approach, we first offer a summary of expected progress and then point to debates on future goals.
authors.affiliation: KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: Mike
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: English
authors.affiliation: Clare College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK.
authors.forename: Rex
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: English
authors.affiliation: Pembroke College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK.
authors.forename: Atti
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: English
mesh_terms: D017954:Africa South of the Sahara; D002648:Child; D046688:Child Mortality; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D003906:Developing Countries; D006040:Goals; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008429:Maternal Welfare; D011203:Poverty
keywords: Comm Child Health; Epidemiology; General Paediatrics; Tropical Paediatrics