Week 4 Links

Building off of last week's links, I've decided to look at the sixth Millennium Development Goal (MGD) and how different organizations are working to fulfill it.

1. The Millennium Development Goals: What you can do
2. World Health Organization's 3 by 5 Initiative. This initiative seeks to "provide three million people living with HIV/AIDS in low- and middle-income countries with life-prolonging antiretroviral treatment (ART) by the end of 2005."
3. DATA policy page
4. Covenant News, Global AIDS: "The Greatest Humanitarian Crisis of All Time." This an example of how the Evangelical Covenant Church is seeking to address HIV/AIDS. I wish they had more specific actions listed.
   
5. United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service. Information about the sixth MGD that includes a good overview of HIV/AIDS, the MGD, and specific actions groups have taken and can take.
   
6. The Micah Challenge's Millenium Development Goal 6 Page. A good site with three types of information: Christian source materials, general source materials, and major reports.
7. The Micah Challenge's Prayer Points (.pdf). A helpful resource for including the MGDs in church services.
   
8. Many Countries Falling Behind In Race To Improve Health And Reduce Deaths By 2015: World Health Organization and World Bank to convene high-level meeting in Africa to offer help. This article describes the problem that many nations are having in reaching the health MGDs, but it also outlines some actions that can be taken. Focused primarily on the national level.
9. International AIDS Vaccine Initiative: Putting it All Together (.pdf). Links the different MGDs and their relationship to HIV/AIDS in particular.
10. Bread for the World: Churches Write Congress to "Keep the Promise" to Poorest Countries. Bread for the World's 2004 letter campaign aimed to persuade "Congress to fund, at the promised levels, the Millennium Challenge Account and the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. These U.S. initiatives were both created last year to significantly reduce hunger, poverty and disease in developing countries."