Health-related Millennium Development Goals: How much India has progressed?

Abstract

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have to be achieved by 2015. This review article discussed India′s progress toward health-related MDGs of reducing child mortality (Goal 4), improving maternal health (Goal 5), and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases (Goal 6). This review article assesses India′s progress toward these goals as well as focuses on major but neglected road blocks in progress such as deficiencies in public health infrastructure and public health man power of India.

Keywords

• Millenium development goals
• health related
• india
• progress