The second MDG, which targeted universal primary education by 2015, will not be met, largely because of poor progress in sub-Saharan Africa.
Poor progress in increasing measles vaccination coverage has resulted in large outbreaks of this highly contagious disease, throwing the 2015 elimination targets off-track.
Last week, Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan and chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said after visiting Iraq that Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki should be ousted for making such poor progress in bridging his country's sectarian differences.
He also points out the poor progress in land acquisition in some states.
There's nothing wrong with testing students and identifying schools in which students appear to be making good or poor progress in comparison to other schools serving students with similar backgrounds, as long as this is just used as information to identify areas of need.
It has been recently shown that lack of BCCIP in p53 wild type laryngeal cancer is associated with poor progress in response to radiation therapy [ 55].
Failure to validly recognise differing sub-groups has been identified as a probable reason for poor progress in low back pain intervention research [ 61].
Such augmentation measures may reduce the number of failed inductions as well as the number of women having poor progress in labour.In conclusion, our data give insight into the effects of diabetes on human myometrium.
However, given the poor progress in diversifying the pipeline population and workforce thus far, it is clear that the current architecture and format of these programs is not sufficient for addressing the problem.
Children with poor WM skills at school entry are at high risk of educational underachievement in reading and mathematics (Gathercole, Brown & Pickering, 2003), and typically make poor progress in all assessed areas of the academic curriculum (Geary, 2004; Swanson & Sachse-Lee, 2001).
