Moreover, we agree that serious attention to health systems strengthening (HSS) and behavior change is necessary to achieve the ambitious Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for health by 2015 and beyond.
For more than a decade, countries around the world and UN agencies have joined forces to eradicate poverty, working toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), an ambitious roadmap endorsed by the global community.
On the other hand, the MDGs are ambitious when viewed against the uneven pace of recent progress toward meeting the needs they address.
More effective harnessing of local innovative capabilities, it has been argued, is vital if the ambitious successors to the MDGs needed for the planet to remain within critical environmental and social boundaries are to be achieved (Leach et al. 2012).
At the same time, the world is moving closer to the 2015 deadline of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which set ambitious targets toward objectives such as reducing extreme poverty, hunger and child mortality; achieving universal primary education; improving maternal health; and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.
In this analysis, assuming conservative intervention scale up, we project that an ambitious but realistic scenario for MDG 4 in the next 2 years will be a U5MR of 34/1,000, with NMR reducing to 9/1,000.
In 2000 the United Nations committed themselves to the ambitious targets embodied in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are described as ambitious for sub-Saharan Africa and are a real barometer to assess countries' efforts towards improving the health of populations [ 1].
In 2010, world leaders endorsed an ambitious new scheme to reach the MDGs by the 2015 target date through a focus on the health of the most vulnerable women and children [ 9].
This has become even more urgent following their ambitious commitment to achieve the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) and the realization that funding is not yet sufficient to allow interventions to be scaled up sufficiently to do so [ 1].
