There are several Conferences with the aim of achieving Millennium Development Goals through universal access. How much it will contribute?.
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The MDGs 4 , 5 , 6 deal with health care & include reducing Infant mortality rate , Maternal mortality rate & treatment of important Infectious diseases , such as HIV , Malaria & Tuberculosis . It is essential that every medical conference emphasizes the role of doctors in achieving these targets . Every doctor should be aware of MDGs & their participation & support is essential to achieve these targets . After 2015 , the SDGs will play an important role for the next 15 years till 2030 . These goals are more broad based & includes diagnosis & management of both Infectious diseases & Non Communicable diseases & doctors would have a very important role in achieving these targets . I hope the Indian textbooks of Medicine would emphasize the significance of MDGs & future SDGs & highlight the importance of doctors to participate in helping to achieve these targets .
Yes! I am positive that medical conferences do help to improve and to attain if not all, some of the MDGs.
I would be a little selective and place a focus on MDG 6 and narrow in on the combat of malaria. There are have been several of such conferences that look at the past, present and the future of the journey towards eliminating malaria. The recent 6th MIM Pan African Malaria Conference held Durban- South Africa is one of such meetings geared towards improving and attaining MDG 6. Such conferences look at the how investments in research, prevention methods, diagnostics and public health interventions can revolutionize the control and efforts to eliminate malaria.
While this conferences are largely scientific in themselves, they bring a lot of benefits to the "ordinary" society. Medics and public health experts could get the chance to share and learn new ideas that they could apply in their home institutions and community. In most malaria- prone areas where sanitation issues ''feed'' the cycle of malaria, public health experts are able to cause a change in poor environmental practices of people through what they learn from such conferences.
These conferences are a platform t o communicate the success and lapses in in malaria research. By showcasing new evidence and emerging data, we gain a measure of the central goal of improving and attaining if not all, some of the MDGs- MDG 6 in this case.
Please look at the links below to gain some insights. Thank you
1. www.keystonesymposia.org/14F1
2. www.mmv.org
This looks like an old message or question that was valid by then, I just got it today well after we have graduated from the MDGs to Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs). Since it is still valid any way since we have simply shifted were the goal post are located but the match is still on, I would say Conferences in general do not by them selves be said to lead to an achievement such as the MDGs but now the SDGs but yes they contribute to or using your own word help to achieve in a way of course together with other factors. The medical conferences especially also achieve a lot towards the health related targets. Its even more diffuse now where most are linked to urban or sustainable development for the next 15 years of implementation of the SDGs
The 169 targets SDG which has just kicked off covering 17 goals including key areas related to poverty, education, combating hunger in several ways, health systems, gender equality, water and sanitation, energy, economic growth, employment, infrastructure, climate change, environmental protection, and all in all looking at sustainable development as the corner stone of all these achievements if at all.
The way the 169 targets have been arranged one can point exactly what the specific conference will add value to which target but we can not point out how much. I truly like the new arrangement of the SDGs though a few look arbitrarily stated especially for the developing world. Well I think it also helps the leaders to pull up any way. Lets see what happens.
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