Last week I wrote on 'Health and the World We Want 2015' and I promised to comment in its part 2 'Health Priorities post 2015', 'Post 2015 guiding principle, goals and targets' and 'Implementation'.
I made reference to the 77 page report titled 'Health in the Post 2015 Development Agenda' that was released end of February 2013 as a result of the global consultation on health sector post 2015.
In the part one of the article I provided insight to the objectives of the health thematic consultation aimed at stimulating wide-range discussion at global, regional, and country levels on progress made and lessons learnt from the MDGs relating to health and also observed some of the weaknesses of the MDGs which do not capture the broader dynamic of development enshrined in the Millennium Declaration, including human rights, equity, democracy, and governance and the lack of attention to equity is widely regarded as one of the most significant shortcomings of the health MDGs and the process was also faulted that led to the emergence of MDGs from a technocratic closed-door process that was poorly specified, influenced by special interests, and lacked a coherent conceptual design or rigorous statistical parameters.
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