Intro to Global Health

Photo by  Aman Shrivastava  on  Unsplash Unfortunately, no country is where they are supposed to be In achieving the sustainable development goals (Sachs, 2019). One of the many obstacles is, “the analysis is limited by the availability, quality, and comparability of data” (Sachs, 2019). One of these countries who are far from meeting the expectations of this project is India. According to the Economic Times, India is in need of about 26.4 trillion investment in order to carry out these goals (2020). In order to monitor the progress of these goals," Central and state ministries are responsible for collecting statistics on a subject depending on whether it is a part of the central, state or concurrent lists of the Constitution" (UN, 2017). It seems as if they have other priorities and other problems to address prior to meeting the Sustainable Development Goals. For example, “Seven per cent of the country's population still do not have access to electricity” and “2...

               I chose sustainable development goal 2, with the mission to “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture” (SDG, 2019). According to The United Nations, malnutrition is on the rise again with “An estimated 821 million people – approximately 1 in 9 people in the world – were undernourished in 2017, up from 784 million in 2015" (SDG, 2019).                The first country I decided to concentrate on was Sub-saharan Africa. According to UNICEF, “Six million children are affected by life-threatening severe acute malnutrition in West and Central Africa” (2020). This is a staggering amount and incompletely unacceptable. This demonstrates how important the sustainable development goals are and why they need to be implemented. The SDG's will be implemented by all stakeholders and  The Addis Ababa Action Agenda (WHO, 2020)...