Title:

Family Planning and the Millennium Development Goals

Author(s):

Cates, Willard
Abdool Karim, Quarraisha
El-Sadr, Wafaa Mahmoud
Haffner, Debra W.
Kalema-Zikusoka, Gladys
Rogo, Khama
Petruney, Tricia
Averill, E. Megan Davidson

Date:

2010

Type:

Articles

Department:

Epidemiology

Volume:

329

Permanent URL:

http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:12866

Book/Journal Title:

Science

Abstract:

The United Nations' (UN's) eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) (1) are widely accepted as the primary path to alleviating poverty worldwide. This month, world leaders convene to assess progress toward these goals (2). In the countdown to the MDG 2015 deadline and amid protracted economic recession, we need the most efficient, effective, and evidence-based means to accelerate progress toward all MDGs. Challenges must be considered in concert, and solutions must provide multidimensional dividends for the world's poor, or we risk unwisely dividing limited resources and diluting their impact. As authors from diverse communities, we emphasize here the influence that investments in rights-based family planning can have on achieving the MDGs.

Subject(s):

Virology
Epidemiology

DOI:

10.1126/science.1197080

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