Abstract
Putting It Together: AIDS and the Millennium Development Goals
Highlights
One of the most important and visionary global actions of recent years was the September 2000 commitment by 189 governments worldwide to “[make] the right to development a reality for everyone and to [free] the entire human race from want” [1]
We examine how HIV/AIDS impedes progress toward several of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG), beyond the direct target dedicated to reducing the HIV epidemic itself
Based on availability of data, we focus on the following MDGs: (1) eradicating extreme poverty and hunger; (2) achieving universal primary education; (3) reducing child mortality; (4)
Summary
One of the most important and visionary global actions of recent years was the September 2000 commitment by 189 governments worldwide to “[make] the right to development a reality for everyone and to [free] the entire human race from want” [1]. Most notably in sub-Saharan Africa, a large number of countries are far behind and appear unlikely to reach, or even come close to reaching, their goals for 2015 [2] The reasons for this are complex and often interlinked, but one stands out as a major overarching threat to development: HIV/AIDS, which kills more people than any other infectious disease and is the fourth-leading cause of death worldwide [3]. A study that examines the impact of the 2002 drought in southern Africa finds that in six affected countries, child nutrition rapidly deteriorated in the presence of high HIV prevalence. In Lesotho, almost 40% of children under four who had lost both parents were underweight, compared with 16% of non-orphans (Figure 2) [18]
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