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The theme for World Health Day is ‘healthy beginnings, hopeful futures’ and aims to encourage governments to take actions to reduce mothers’ deaths during pregnancy and childbirth.
CHILD MORTALITY

World health: Progress after Covid — then Trump struck

On World Health Day, let’s not lose sight of hope, of taking action to make sure we create societies in which our children can not only survive but thrive

  • Mark Tomlinson
6 min read
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

We need to do more than recognise that water is a human right

Water is central to human life and cuts across the sustainable development goals water

  • Wafaie Fawzi
  • Alex Taylor
5 min read
Rising isolationism means that good news like this could become a thing of the past.
DIPHTHERIA TETANUS PERTUSSIS

​The most important story you missed in 2019

Each of us probably overlooks tens of thousands of important news stories every year. But the biggest one people missed in 2019 happened in October

  • Mark Suzman
5 min read
Women queue outside of a Malawian health facility for healthcare for their children. Moving rape crisis centres out of central hospitals in Malawi and into clinics closer to communities might increase the number of people who use them, experts say.
BHEKISISA TEAM

Comment: Mother and child health must improve

Increasing access to health services will prevent many mothers and newborn babies from dying.

  • Bhekisisa Team
  • Mark Suzman
8 min read
We have fairly little information about what exactly was achieved through the Millennium Development Goals.
DATA

Monitoring progress towards Sustainable Development Goals

The UN’s working group suggests 169 targets for the Sustainable Development Goals. But we have to focus on fewer if the results are to be measurable.

  • Bjorn Lomborg 1
4 min read
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

Millennium Development Goals expire next year … What then?

The UN needs to get a fix on achievable goals for its next 15-year global development agenda. Economics may well show the way, writes Bjørn Lomborg.

  • Bjorn Lomborg 1
6 min read
Women are built to create one of the most complicated things on Earth – a human being.
CHILD DEATHS

MDGs: Child and maternal health needs critical care

Despite increased efforts to improve child and maternal health, countries are still lagging behind in meeting their Millennium Development Goals.

  • Ina Skosana
2 min read
Health surveillance workers in Malawi focus on under-fives and pregnant mothers
BHEKISISA TEAM

Lay workers on frontline in fight against child mortality in Malawi

Resource-lean, short of professionals and prone to food crises, Malawi doesn’t look like a candidate for any of the millennium development goals.

  • Alex Duval Smith
4 min read
Nuclear power will cost the country dearly. Photo: Supplied
FUKUSHIMA

Nuclear power will cost the country dearly

Government and the unions are being lobbied by an industry increasingly desperate to sell reactors, says <b>Rianne Teule</b>.

  • Staff Reporter
3 min read
Nationalisation isn’t the way for South Africa
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

Manuel: SA has failed to deliver to the poor

South Africa has failed to deliver quality services to the poor, despite adequate funding, Planning Minister Trevor Manuel said on Wednesday.

  • Staff Reporter
3 min read
LESLEY WROUGHTON

Rich donors urge rethink of aid at UN poverty meeting

Budget-strapped rich donors will call for a rethink of strategies to make sure their aid funds are not wasted when world leaders meet this week.

  • Lesley Wroughton
3 min read
FARANAAZ PARKER

Economic crisis slows progress on development goals

A United Nations report has warned that the negative economic climate could slow progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.

  • Faranaaz Parker
2 min read
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

World Bank presses aid to developing world

The World Bank has urged industrialised nations to maintain aid flows to developing nations to offset an expected decline in private capital flows.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT

Meeting the goals

Last week world leaders gathered at the UN to assess midway progress towards achieving targets known as the Millennium Development Goals.

  • Staff Reporter
8 min read
BAN KIMOON

UN chief: Where is Africa’s promised aid?

United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has appealed to rich countries to honour their 2005 pledge to more than double their aid to the African continent.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
BAN KIMOON

Financial crisis casts cloud over UN poverty meeting

Heads of state, private-sector leaders and development agencies will this week assess the global fight against poverty.

  • Lesley Wroughton
3 min read
HIV AIDS

HIV major factor in rising child deaths

Aids-related deaths in South Africa: 2 424 770 at noon on March 18 Mothers and children in South Africa are dying in alarming numbers. Far from being on track to meet the…

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read