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»The Right to Health The international community has demonstrated some progress in bringing health and human rights together, since the Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978 , the post of Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health was created and the World Health Organisation has taken more interest in a rights-based approach. Half of the Millennium Development Goals are dedicated to health; including the reduction of child mortality, to improve maternal health, to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, and to provide sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. All these goals are aimed to be reached by 2015 to 2020. Some argue that the targets are too high and unrealistic, and in fact developments so far in all areas have not kept up to plan. Yet some critics feel that the targets of these goals are too small and insignificant. The 3-by-5 project run by the WHO aims to ensure that 3 million people with HIV/AIDS receive antiretroviral treatment by 2005. With 40 million people at present with HIV/AIDS and the number increasing on a daily basis, this project may very soon need to be revised

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