Tuesday: Another day of impassioned speech and demand for action.
Key ideas which were raised in the course of the day:
Dr Jane Freemantle (Australian epidemiologist): We are not collecting
enough data - every person should be counted, no matter how remote or
marginalized. Without accurate data, we cannot accurately define our
problems, and cannot find appropriate solutions.
Justin Mohamed (Aboriginal health expert): We need to start involving
local people in collecting data on their communities, and then we must
utilise the data to bring about change. We must ask ourselves whether
poor people and indigenous people of the world are truly valued.
Dr Claudio Schuftan (Chilean freelance medical consultant): achieving
the MDGs would only modestly (if at all) improve global health. What
we need is a human rights based approach, where the goal is fulfilling
human rights for all, rather than an approach that 'fills deficits'.
The MDGs are flawed in their lack of long term commitment, focus on
communicable disease and reliance on technology.
Kenneth Ndubuisi Okoh: we must fight corrupt governments who pocket
international aid. The western world should "close their funds" to the
greedy and the corrupt.
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