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MDGs have a role to play in protecting public health.

GREAT BAY (DCOMM):--- The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is also part and parcel of the national development process that includes public health.

This week the world including the country observed World Health Day under the theme, vector-borne diseases, warning that a "small bite can carry a big threat."

The international community of nations has been requested to back a global health agenda that gives higher priority to controlling the spread of vector-borne diseases, a step towards ensuring that no one in the 21st century would die from the bite of a mosquito or a tick.

Every year more than one million people die from diseases carried by mosquitoes, flies and other insects.

Vector-borne diseases are a serious impediment to poverty reduction and sustainable development, and it is recognized by the United Nations (UN), that in order for nations to achieve the MDGs and define a post-2015 development agenda, they must recognize that investing in vector control and disease prevention is both wise and necessary.

The UN MDGs are eight goals that all 191 UN members states have agreed to try to achieve by the year 2015. The UN Millennium Declaration, signed in September 2000 commits world leaders to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women.

Country Sint Maarten has its own MDG workgroup, guided by the Department of the Interior Affairs and Kingdom Relations (BAK), and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

For more information, regarding the MDG process, interested institutions and others can call Drs. L.R. Morales at 542-0896 or write to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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