Abstract
The world has made a great deal of progress through the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to improve the health and well-being of people around the globe, but there remains a long way to go. Here we provide reflections on Rwanda's experience in working to meet the health-related targets of the MDGs. This experience has informed our proposal of five guiding principles that may be useful for countries to consider as the world sets and moves forward with the post-2015 development agenda. These include: 1) advancing concrete and meaningful equity agendas that drive the post-2015 goals; 2) ensuring that goals to meet Universal Health Coverage (UHC) incorporate real efforts to focus on improving quality and not only quantity of care; 3) bolstering education and the internal research capacity within countries so that they can improve local evidence-based policy-making; 4) promoting intersectoral collaboration to achieve goals, and 5) improving collaborations between multilateral agencies - that are helping to monitor and evaluate progress towards the goals that are set - and the countries that are working to achieve improvements in health within their nation and across the world.
Highlights
As the world enters this period of evaluation of the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it is useful to reflect upon the progress that has been made and the steps we must collectively take to achieve a healthier future for all [1]
Drawing from Rwanda’s experience to meet the healthrelated MDGs, we provide five guiding principles that we believe will help facilitate continued worldwide progress to improve health in a post-MDG era
The country is still recovering from the health professional losses due to the genocide coupled with systemic health workforce shortages in the region
Summary
As the world enters this period of evaluation of the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it is useful to reflect upon the progress that has been made and the steps we must collectively take to achieve a healthier future for all [1]. Fulfilling its national commitment to sustainable human development has required a collective and cohesive effort by Rwanda’s policy-makers, including the social and financial sectors, and international collaborators, but the investment has paid off: Rwanda is on track to achieve the health-related goals for maternal and child health (MDGs 4 and 5) by 2015 [2,3].
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