Tag: Millennium Development Goals
Since 2006, Physicians for Peace (PfP), a U.S. based non-profit focused on providing health care training and education to developing countries, has been working with the Millennium Cities Initiative to help the Millennium Cities in their efforts to attain the Millennium Development Goals. Under the leadership of Brigadier General Ron Sconyers, PfP has shipped containers of life-saving medicines and medical equipment to the Millennium Cities in Mali and Senegal; has led several missions to research the most acute medical training needs in Millennium Cities in both east and west Africa; and has dispatched multiple surgical teams to perform fistula repair surgeries that have transformed the lives of many women and girls in Kaduna, Nigeria, and Segou, Mali. PfP has also been instrumental in advocating for a blood bank in Segou, Mali, which will bring millions of people access to safe blood transfers. To coincide with this week’s UN MDG Summit, MCI interviewed this “MDG Hero” about his work with Physicians for Peace to advance health-related MDGs.
Category> General Earth Institute, Global Health, Poverty / Economic Development, Urbanization
Tags> fistula repair, Kaduna, Mali, Maternal and Child Health, Millennium Cities Initiative, Millennium Development Goals, Millennium Villages Project, Nigeria, Physicians for Peace, Segou, UN MDG Summit
Today, two of the world’s leading companies announce grants and technical support totaling more than $1,000,000 aimed at ending global poverty by 2015.
Category> Agriculture-Food, General Earth Institute, Global Health, Poverty / Economic Development
Tags> Africa, agriculture, community health workers, Corporate Circle News, Ghana, health, information and communications technology, Millennium Development Goals, Millennium Villages Project, nutrition, UN MDG Summit
New York, September 21 – Today, Nestlé pledged a two-year, $400,000 grant to support food and nutrition system initiatives led by the Earth Institute, Columbia University, within the Millennium Villages project. Funds will be used to advance progress towards eliminating hunger, increasing food security, and achieving the nutrition-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the 14 [...]
Category> Agriculture-Food, General Earth Institute, Global Health
Tags> Africa, agriculture, Corporate Circle News, Donor Partner News, Millennium Development Goals, Millennium Villages Project, nutrition
New York, September 21 – The Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development and the Earth Institute, Columbia University today announced a new partnership in support of the Ghana Telemedicine Project, a pilot to use the latest in information and communications technology to improve point-of-service health care services in the Millennium Village of Bonsaaso, Ghana. With this [...]
Category> General Earth Institute, Global Health
Tags> Africa, community health workers, Corporate Circle News, Donor Partner News, Ghana, health, information and communications technology, Millennium Development Goals, Millennium Villages Project
In the Millennium City of Kumasi, Ghana, the Maternal Mortality Ratio was on the rise until 2009. But a sustained and dedicated effort on the part of the Kumasi Metropolitan Health Directorate and its director, Dr. Kwasi Yeboah-Awudzi, has resulted in dramatically reduced maternal deaths over the last 18 months. Dr. Yeboah-Awudzi’s direction included upgrading frontline facility infrastructure to accommodate safe deliveries, performing more cesareans at these facilities and intensifying public education regarding the importance of ante-natal visits. In celebration of this week’s UN MDG Summit, MCI interviewed this “MDG Hero” about his work to advance Target 1 of Millennium Development Goal 4.
Category> Global Health, Poverty / Economic Development, Urbanization
Tags> Ghana, Kumasi, Maternal Health, Maternal Mortality Ratio, millennium cities, Millennium Cities Initiative, Millennium Development Goals
There are just five years left until the deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, eight ambitious objectives to tackle extreme poverty and its many dimensions and reach a more equitable and sustainable world by 2015. World leaders are gathering this month at the United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development Goals to see that this crucial pledge will be met.
Through efforts like the Millennium Villages project, the Earth Institute, Columbia University, is committed to helping the world achieve the MDGs. Our generous donors are allowing us to come closer to this objective–promoting the achievement of the MDGs in the Millennium Villages and beyond.
Category> General Earth Institute, Global Health, Poverty / Economic Development, Water
Tags> Africa, Donor Partner News, Millennium Development Goals, Millennium Villages Project, Project Spotlight, UN MDG Summit
With only five years left until the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has called on world leaders to attend a summit in New York on 20-22 September 2010 to accelerate progress towards the MDGs, aimed at slashing poverty, hunger, disease, maternal and child deaths and other ills. MDG 4 aims for a two-thirds reduction in the mortality of children under-five.
Category> Global Health, Poverty / Economic Development, Urbanization
Tags> American Academy of Pediatrics, Helping Babies Breathe, infant mortality, Johnson & Johnson, Millennium Cities Initiative, Millennium Development Goals, neonatal health
A guest blog from Dr. Matt Oliva, an MD with the Himalayan Cataract Project.
Blindness exerts an incredible toll in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, in terms of both human suffering and adverse economic impact. Due to environmental conditions, malnutrition and vitamin deficiency, ocular infections, trauma and lack of access to care, some of the world’s highest rates of blindness exist in this arid and mountainous area, with a 1.5% estimated prevalence rate. The majority of this blindness is caused by cataract and corneal opacification, both of which are treatable conditions, often for as little as $20 per surgery.
Category> Poverty / Economic Development, Urbanization
Tags> Blindness, Ethiopia, Himalayan Cataract Project, Mekelle, Millennium Cities Initiative, Millennium Development Goals, opthamology
In many areas of sub-Saharan Africa, gender parity tends to decline at higher levels of schooling. While girls’ enrollment and completion rates for primary school are typically high, these rates decrease with secondary and tertiary education. Girls may discontinue their studies to devote more time to household chores, to earn extra income by engaging in [...]
Category> Poverty / Economic Development, Urbanization
Tags> educating girls, Ethiopia, feminine pads, Millennium Cities Initiative, Millennium Development Goals, Millennium Villages, women's empowerment
The following is a guest blog, authored by Sarah Jaffe, an MCI researcher who is carrying out a Gender Needs Assessment for Kisumu, Kenya. My mobile buzzed in my pocket, and I shifted the crate of Fanta my seatmate had rested on my lap to one side. It was my colleague, Ben: “Madame Grace is [...]
Category> Poverty / Economic Development, Urbanization
Tags> Africa, gender equality, Kenya, Millennium Cities Initiative, Millennium Development Goals
