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Making little progress to Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 for maternal and child health: a personal perspective from Uganda
Author(s) -
Moynihan Katie M
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb04121.x
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , citation , millennium development goals , medicine , library science , sociology , political science , law , poverty , computer science , artificial intelligence
The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 6/20 December 2010 193 11/12 721-723 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2010 www.mja.com.au True stories anaesthesia. I decided to take a year-long break from scheme to do humanitarian aid work in a developing I am now coming to the end of a 6-month sabbatic This personal perspective on paediatric and obstetr sion in Uganda aims to illustrate some of the stumb practice that are limiting progress towards the MDG and child health. “Child deaths are falling, but not quickly enough to reach the target.” “Most maternal deaths could be avoided.” The Millennium Development Goals Report, 2010 “Where we are now in terms of health service delivery should be measured against where we have come from and not where we ideally should be. A lot of progress has been made.” Mary L Nannono, Permanent Secretary at Uganda’s Ministry of Health, 2008 MJA Christmas Competition