Millennium development holes (3)
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With respect to George Kent's comment on the sogginess of the MDG's, I say much the same thing in my new book: THE GLOBAL RIGHT to HEALTH: Dream or Possibility? The publisher is Radcliffe Medical Publishing, Oxford. It has just come out, although the official launch is not until May 2 from Canada House in Trafalgar Square.
In the book I point out that the only REAL hope for global equity in health, and indeed all other human rights, is contained in the Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 and was coming along very well under Dr. Halfdan Mahler's D-G ship of WHO in the 80's. But from 1990 onward, it became more and more undermined by neoliberal interests and this decline accelerated after the formal inauguration of the WTO in 1995. I DO say that hopefully Dr. Margaret Chan might get back to it. As for the MDGs, I argue that even if they were all achieved by 2020 (which I show won't happen) that would only constitute a MINIMAL basis for later developing global health equity.
Theodore MacDonald