The objective of this seminar (held in October 2005) was to review progress towards the Health MDGs five years after the Millennium Declaration -- with special focus on the Asia Pacific Region and Australia’s contributions to the effort to achieve the goals. The seminar was held just prior to the third High-Level Forum on the Health MDGs, which was held in Paris, France on 14-15 November 2005.
The seminar was chaired by Dr Jim Tulloch, Senior Medical Adviser, Australian Agency for International Development, former WHO Representative in Cambodia, and senior health adviser to the United Nations Transitional Authority in East Timor.
The documents below are the presentations made by each speaker:
Challenges in meeting the MDGs in the Asia Pacific Region (156 KB)
Dr Jim Tulloch, Senior Medical Adviser, AusAID- Reducing child mortality and improving maternal health – a global review of progress (118 KB)
Prof. Ron Waldman, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York - Meeting the Challenge of the HIV Epidemic in Asia and the Pacific (1 MB)
Shyamala Nataraj, Director, South India AIDS Action Program - Eliminating Extreme Hunger – the Asian Enigma (424 KB)
Assoc. Prof. Mike Toole, Head, Centre for International Health, Burnet Institute - Are the MDGs relevant to Australia’s Aboriginal Population? (1 MB)
Assoc. Prof. Paul Torzillo, University of Sydney