ACTUALIZING THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

THE ROLE OF HEALTH WORKERS

Abstract

The need for international and universal trade relations for mutual growth and development of nations and people gave birth to the Millennium development goals in September 2000. The leaders from all the 1919 member nations of UN agreed on a vision for the future - a world with less poverty, hunger and diseases, greater survival prospects for mothers and their infants, better educated children, equal opportunities for women and a healthy environment, a world in which developed and developing countries worked in partnership for the betterment of all. This vision took the shape of eight goals, which are providing countries around the world a framework for development and time-bound targets by which progress can be measured. There is need for an in-depth knowledge of the millennium development goals at all levels of government and strata of society and the engagement with relevant policies. Health workers should strengthen education and services on health, gender and demographic issues in order to make the attainment of the millennium development goals possibly by 2015.