HIV and Maternal and Child Health: Investing to Accelerate Progress on Health MDGs

In 2000, UN Member States set six Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for the international community to achieve by 2015, three addressing global health challenges. In 2005, G8 nations – followed quickly by all remaining UN Member States ‐ set another goal: universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support for all in need by 2010. The 2010 deadline has arrived, and this year includes several opportunities to review progress on both the universal access goal and related MDGS and increase the financing required to achieve them. There is growing consensus among MCH advocates and multilateral agencies on what interventions are required and the financing and health system challenges that need to be solved in order to meet the 2015 deadline.