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In 2000 The eight Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) were agreed to by all the world’s countries and
all the world’s leading development institutions.
Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has made the decision to contribute in a
special way to actually achieving the MDG No. 4 on reducing child mortality
by two-thirds by 2015. Read more
UNICEF, the Government of Norway and The Lancet organized on 18 September 2006 a Child Survival Symposium in New York. The
Symposium brought together world leaders and health experts, and the goal was
to draw attention to child survival and re-energize global commitment to
MDG4.
The most effective way to reduce child mortality is to ensure that all children are vaccinated against the most common
diseases. More than 10 million children under the age of five die every
year. One in four of these could be saved by vaccines that are already available,
or that will be available in the near future. As of 2006, Norway will allocate NOK 800
million a year to fight child mortality.
Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has as co-chair to a UN High-level Panel explored how the UNs
system can work more coherently and effectively in the areas of development,
humanitarian assistance and the environment, making it possible to achieve
the MDGs. Recommendations for substantial rerforms
of the UN system were presented in New York today by the Prime Ministers of
Norway and Pakistan – Jens Stoltenberg and Shaukat Aziz. With Prime Minister
Luisa Diogo of Mocambique.
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