Optimism vs. Pessimism
This short article seeks to highlight in the realities facing nations of the world today.
In September 2000 precisely, member states of the United Nations unanimously set a number of goals to be met by 2015. These include the following:
- Ensuring that all children complete primary schooling.
- Eliminating gender inequality at all levels of education.
- Reduction by two thirds the mortality rate among children under 5 years of age.
- Reduction of mortality rate by 75 percent.
- Halt and begin the reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS as well as the incidence of other major diseases.
- Reduction by 50 percent the proportion of people who do not have access to safe drinking water.
The big question is, can these goals be attained? After re-valuating matters in 2004, a panel of health officials around the world concluded that optimism has to be tampered with the realization that hoped-for gains do not reflect what is really happening. The foreword to the book State Of The World 2005 reports: “Poverty continues to under determine progress in many areas. Diseases such as HIV/AIDS are on the rise, creating public health time bombs in numerous countries (like the case of Swine Flu in Mexico). In The past 10 years, more than 20 million have died of various diseases, e.t.c.
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