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. 2004 Aug 14;329(7462):394-7.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7462.394.

Can the millennium development goals be attained?

Andy Haines  1 , Andrew Cassels
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Can the millennium development goals be attained?

Andy Haines et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

To achieve the UN's goals worldwide, less developed countries need to address weaknesses in health systems and policy makers need to look beyond aggregate national figures to inequalities in outcomes

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Achieving the millennium development goals requires steep declines in maternal and child mortality Credit: DIETER TELEMANS/PANOS
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Mortality in children under 5 years, 1990-2001, current trend (dotted line), and millennium development goals targets for 2015. Used by permission of Oxford University Press
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