With limited time remaining to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), there needs to be accelerated progress to achieve MDGs 4 and 5 and improve women's and children's health [ 1].
Alarmed by claims by the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, that the report showed Iran was "continuing to make accelerated progress toward achieving nuclear weapons while totally ignoring international demands", US and European governments took the unusual step of giving briefings, before IAEA inspectors presented the report to member states, to play down its significance.
The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reported Friday that during a meeting with Representative Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican who heads the intelligence committee, Mr. Netanyahu said, "Just yesterday, we received additional proof of the fact that Iran is continuing to make accelerated progress toward achieving nuclear weapons while totally ignoring international demands".
We conclude that simultaneous implementation of these four strategies, combined with research on the effectiveness of this integrated approach, could contribute to large-scale, national CHW programmes reaching their full potential, thereby promoting accelerated progress toward achieving global health and development goals and universal health coverage with equity [ 7, 16– 16].
Indeed, one of the key lessons learned from the MDG period has been that it will be difficult to achieve most of the MDGs without accelerated progress in fragile states [ 2].
Pakistan has an estimated maternal mortality of 260 per 100,000 live births [ 9]; an estimate that reflects a 48% reduction in maternal mortality since 1990 [ 9], but indicates that accelerated progress is needed to achieve the target set for 2015.
Despite Ethiopia's achievements to improve access to maternal, newborn, and child health services, accelerated progress is needed for the country to achieve Millennium Development Goal 4 [ 23], particularly in the area of newborn health.
But it must because he needs to make accelerated progress, six point progress.
Achieving MDG 5 requires accelerating progress.
This round aims at sustaining and accelerating progress achieved during the previous rounds".
