Abstract:We begin the year 2015 with a warning to our readers regarding the need to examine carefully the policies currently in play in global health. This year is crucial for criticism, renovation or alteration of the "Millennium development goals" (MDG) adopted by the United Nations in 2000. At the time, it was thought that 2015 would be the deadline to meet eight goals (three of which were directly related to health: reducing child mortality, significantly improving maternal health and radically combatting HIV/AIDS,… Show more
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