Millennium Development Goals and post-2015 Development Agenda

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Tune in today at 5 PM EST and join us in congratulating Dr. Padmini Murthy on becoming the first American to receive the prestigious Jhirad Oration Award. Dr. Padmini Murthy’s Jhirad Oration, “Women’s Health is Societies’ Wealth” focused on the link between women’s health during the life span (cradle-grave).    JOIN THIS WEEK’S DIS­CUS­SION LIVE BY PHONE OR SKYPE FROM ANY­WHERE IN THE WORLD WHEN: THURS­DAY, August 29th TIME: 5: 00 P.M. –6: 00 P.M. EAST­ERN STAN­DARD TIME TO PAR­TIC­I­PATE BY PHONE: CALL THIS NUM­BER DUR­ING SHOW­TIME: (760) 283‑0850 TO JOIN BY SKYPE — ADD: AFRICAN­VIEWS (CALL IN DUR­ING SHOWTIME) HOST: DR. PAD­MINI MURTHY, CO-​HOST: DR. ELVIRA BERACOCHEA The eight Mil­len­nium Devel­op­ment Goals (MDGs) – which range from halv­ing extreme poverty to halt­ing the spread of HIV/​AIDS and pro­vid­ing uni­ver­sal pri­mary edu­ca­tion – have been a mile­stone in global and national devel­op­ment efforts. The frame­work has helped to gal­va­nize devel­op­ment efforts and guide global and national devel­op­ment pri­or­i­ties. While three of the eight goals have been achieved prior to the final dead­line of 2015 progress has been uneven within and across coun­tries. Thus fur­ther efforts and a strong global part­ner­ship for devel­op­ment are needed to accel­er­ate progress and reach the goals by 2015. Click here to lis­ten to this AV Radio episode on BlogTalk We will dis­cuss the salient fea­tures of the tran­si­tion to the post 2015 devel­op­ment agenda and its role in help­ing to con­tinue the devel­op­ment and tar­gets related to the 8 MDGs. http://www.africanviews.org/index.php/component/content/article/1068-av-radio/millennium-development-goals-31932/49541-millennium-development-goals-and-post-2015-development-agenda