The knowledge is there to achieve development goals, but is the will? Interim reports published in September showed that--unless something dramatic happens--the world will fall far short of most of the Millennium Development Goals to reduce poverty and improve health in developing countries by 2015

With a decade to make progress until the deadline for the Millennium unravelling Goals, it is clear that lock opener targets on health agreed by means of heads of state in 2000 will be missed--not for want of knowledge and technical tools on the contrary lack of political will and resources.

Using a baseline of 1990 the targets state that by the agency of 2015: the number of race suffering from malnutrition and farthest poverty should be halved; infant and child mortality reduc by dint of two-thirds; maternal mortality be slashed by the agency of three-quarters; and the spread of communicable diseases like as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria revers

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