Foreign Policy Blogs

The MDG Summit Begins

Not much to report so far, but the tone has been set by the General Assembly President Joseph Deiss, who says, “We must achieve the Millennium Development Goals. We want to achieve them. And we can achieve them.”

The Gates Foundation has a live stream of the conference that you can access here.

 

Author

Keena Seyfarth

Keena Seyfarth is a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, getting a combination Masters degree in International Health and Humanitarian Assistance at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and International Development and International Economics at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C. She has lived much of her life in rural Africa, and traveled extensively through southern and eastern Africa. She recently returned from six months in Ethiopia, where she worked for the public hospital system.