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The Mexican Government says it is very close to achieving the Millennium goals

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Mexico, 13 sep (EFE).-the Government of Mexico said today that it is very close to achieving the objectives of the Millennium Development (MDGs) to only four years to expiry of the term, some of which, such as primary education, are already a reality.

In an event held at the official residence of Los Pinos, the owner of Social development, Heriberto Felix, stated that “Mexico is to meet the targets for reduction of extreme poverty”, despite the impact of the international economic crisis and food.

Mexico reduced to 5.3 percent poverty index, which in 1990 stood at 9.3%, which is why “we are little less than a percentage point to meet this target (4.6%)”, he asserted.

In relation to child malnutrition, the commitment was to spend 14 to 7 per cent the proportion of children under five years with low weight and size, a goal that now “we have complied to reach five percent”, stated the Minister.

On the goal of achieving universal primary education, said that in Mexico already “all children age to attend this educational level have assured a place in the school”.

“Mexico has today, on average, 8.7 years of education, above, for example, in Brazil, China and India,” he said at a ceremony in which participated the President Felipe Calderón and the administrator of the programme of the United Nations for development (UNDP) Helen Clark.

Félix also declared accomplished the goal set for 2015 in relation to gender equality, noting that in Mexico because there are “almost” a girl for every child in primary and secondary levels.

“Even in the middle and higher education women outnumber on proportion slightly men”, stated.

In the mortality of children under five years of, mentioned that the probability of dying “is now almost three times less” than that did in 1990, to pass the mortality rate of 47-17 for every thousand children, very close to the goal of 15.7 2015.

The Minister also referred to progress in maternal, indicating that over the past two decades mortality decreased by 40% and health have today 9 of every 10 births attended by personnel trained.

On fighting HIV-AIDS, admitted that it is necessary to “strengthen the actions” to halt its advance, while in the case of malaria and tuberculosis, noted that Mexico “already surpassed the goal raised in both diseases associated with poverty and marginalization”.

Felix also listed the achievements in environmental matters, such as the reforestation of a million and a half hectares, and access to information technologies and communications.

The President Calderón said that his country “is fully committed to meet the Millennium development goals, because they are more active consensus that has humanity to achieve sustainable development across the globe”.

In the Act, which celebrated the 50th anniversary of UNDP in Mexico, Clark stressed his interest to continue working in this country, especially now “which is becoming a new partner for the development of Nations poorest thanks to its new agency for cooperation for development”.

In the framework of his visit to Mexico, the representative of UNDP will relocate to the southern state of Chiapas, where they interview with UN staff, representatives of civil society and indigenous leaders, that he will attend a meeting of State Congress.

Mexican President Felipe Calderón spoke today during an official ceremony that delivered to the Director of the programme of the United Nations for development, Helen Clark, the country report on the development of the Millennium goals, in city of Mexico. EFE

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Non communicable diseases are the leading cause of mortality in the world

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Geneva, 14 sep (EFE).-non-communicable, such as cardiovascular or respiratory diseases, are the main cause of death worldwide, accounting for 63% of the 57 million total deaths recorded in 2008, according to a report by the World Health Organization (who).

“The majority of these 36 million deaths due to cardiovascular or respiratory diseases, diabetes, or cancer,” said the head of the Department of chronic diseases and health promotion of the who, Leanne Riley, in the presentation in Geneva of the report, which contains the profile of the 193 countries members of the who in relation to these diseases.

Cardiovascular diseases were responsible for 48% of these deaths, cancer 21%, respiratory problems from 12% and 3% diabetes.

Riley explained that the reason why these diseases are the leading cause of mortality in the world is because in the last thirty years has imposed a much more sedentary lifestyle and changes in the diet, in which predominate the sugars, saturated fats and salt, which causes health problems such as cholesterol, high pressure and high levels of sugar in blood

“Has doubled the average body mass index in the majority of countries in just thirty years and cases of overweight have grown considerably,” pointed out.

Of the total of deaths from non-communicable diseases, 9 million occurred in less than 60 years and 90% of these premature deaths occurred in low income countries, where people have up to three times as likely to die less than sixty years.

As explained above, in developing such diseases tend to detect later and treatments are not always accessible to everyone, which is why the hardest tend to be the poorest of the population.

“This percentage of deaths before the 1960s also implies the loss of adults of working age, i.e., of productive force for the country”, pointed out.

The director of the anti-tobacco initiative of Douglas Betcher, who explained that the incidence of these diseases is also a serious economic problem, as countries spend billions of dollars in treatments against noncommunicable diseases.

For this reason, Betcher assured that these diseases are one of the greatest threats to the global economy and financial security by what it considered “urgent” to move forward in the prevention of these diseases, most of which are avoided changing bad habits.

“The countries that have more invested in prevention programmes and awareness-raising campaigns among the population are the best results obtained in aspects such as reducing cholesterol or tension among the population”, stated, for its part, Riley, who highlighted the case of Finland, as one of the countries that have reduced the impact of diseases cardiovascular.

With regard to tobacco, Betcher highlighted the major achievements of the campaigns undertaken in countries such as Turkey and Uruguay, in which the prevalence of tobacco was reduced up to 25% between 2006 and 2009.

Stressed the importance that of low-income countries to conduct prevention campaigns among the population, they are cheap, and eventually save millions of dollars in treatments doctors.

“Now the largest consumers of tobacco and junk food are countries poorer, because these products companies now focus on those markets, less regulated and where there is not much awareness about its dangers,” explained.

However, is not only changing habits, in poorer countries, often it is much cheaper to eat junk food, with high content of salt and saturated fat, which buy fruits and vegetables in markets, added the head of the who. EFE

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Experts seek alternatives to the current anti drug policies in Mexico

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Mexico, 13 sep (EFE).-the Latin American Conference of policies on drugs began today in Mexico in order to find alternatives to the current strategy for “moving towards regulating prohibition”, Efe said the organizers.

This is one of the main consensus of people from various organizations involved in the third edition of this Congress which will last until morning. The other, the issue of drugs is treated as a public health problem and not something criminal.

“We must work on a policy against drugs by proposing a regulatory alternative that currently has,” he told Efe Elsa Conde, Member of the collective with an Integral policy towards drugs (Cupihd), one of the associations which organizes this event for the first time in Mexico.

“We must deal with everything that has to do with the market with a different policy to regulate the production, cultivation and consumption,” he said and added that a policy of struggle with violence that “has not solved the problem” has been used in Mexico since 2006.

During these two days, more than 300 American experts, representatives of non-governmental organizations, legislators, politicians and drug exhibited their alternatives and will rely on their experiences.

“Current policies have not worked.” “Globally have focused primarily on trying to cut the supply of illicit drugs with very little attention to demand”, said Coletta Youngers, principal adviser of the Office in Washington for Latin American Affairs (WOLA).

That is why there must be more policies that address the prevention and treatment to people with problems resulting from the drug.

For Youngers, one of the main problems is that anti-drug Latin laws tend to treat all those involved in the chain of drugs by equally.

“A small seller on the street is like a drug dealer and that makes that we filled the prisons of people with minor drug offences,” explained.

Along the same lines uttered María Paula Romo, Member of Ecuadorian, arrived in Mexico to present the case of his country, where, said 40 per cent of prisoners is in prison for small drug offences, data much more appealing if there are women, 80%

“Are not heads of posters, but that they are used to transport small amounts,” he told Efe and pointed out that the case of Ecuador “serves to illustrate what is happening in other places, that while they increase those imprisoned, not reducing the cultivated hectares and there is less traffic and less consumption”.

View of Youngers, another error is that many countries have dedicated to the eradication of crops by force and bring farmers to prison when single reduction policy that has worked is that of the “integral and sustainable development in coca or poppy-producing areas”.

One of the participants who also believes in these policies is Peter sands, Mayor of San José del Guaviare, which with its 65,000 inhabitants is one of the first municipalities of Colombia hectares planted with coca, about 5,000.

“Do not share the programs of our central Government of forced eradication that have led to hundreds of peasants to jail,” said.

“It has been shown that investment in rural development Yes get out of the planting of coca farming families,” added.

At the Conference also involved consumers as Luiz Paulo Guanabara, founder of the Inpud (international network of people who use drugs), to ask to stop is discriminate and marginalize the consumers of substances banned.

“I am a person and I have my rights.” “We want the decriminalization of consumption and the decriminalization of the user,” he noted. EFE

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Venezuelan Government will fight against insecurity in hospitals with militia

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Caracas, 13 sep (EFE).-the Minister of Interior and Venezuela justice, Tareck El Aisami, reported today that the militias, also called by the Government of Hugo Chávez as a “people in arms”, team ten public hospitals Caracas from next Friday to ensure the safety of doctors and patients.

“We have selected these ten hospitals because we believe that they have greater influx by users of the metropolitan area,” said El Aissami during a meeting which argued the medical profession and the executive authorities, reported the Venezuelan news agency AVN.

The Bolivarian militia was created in 2005 by presidential decree and is formed by the territorial militia, defined as the “people in arms”, and “bodies combatants”, composed of members of public institutions, universities or companies, as the State Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA).

Each health center will feature a “battalion of militia” that will support the security of these hospitals, indicates AVN, although the deployment of militia will begin this Friday in Hospital El Algodonal, located in the West of Caracas.

The Minister made the comments after several members of the Government, including the Executive Vice President, Elías Jaua, met today with several unions of doctors because of high levels of insecurity that occur in hospitals in the country.

El Aissami urged doctors, managers and community to monitor this safety plan which will also include 450 military officers and other officials of law enforcement in the country.

“Have to send us comments;” “colleagues were trained to make Situational diagnosis, to know which are the hours that there are further influx of people, critical hours and different entries in the hospitals,” added.

He announced that the State is designing a special project in conjunction with the national police to be carried out at the beginning of the next year.

During the meeting, also intervened Chavez through a phone call, and said that his Government would provide “” its full support to the medical profession, “revolutionaries or not”.

“I care that they are serious to address this problem, and it must be in all areas of the country,” said Chavez, who showed his readiness to “turn the page” in the conflictive relationship that have kept these past few months the medical sector and the Government.

Jaua defended the intervention of the militia against “those who always go to oppose” and accuse this organization as repressive or “agents castro-comunistas”.

The recent murder at the end of August, a student of medicine out of the guard time in a hospital in the State of Carabobo raised debate about hospital insecurity to the media, which also led to that atizaran the protests of those who call for more security in medical centers.

Venezuela had a homicide rate in 2010 of 48 persons per 100,000 inhabitants, according to government figures. EFE

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The Venezuelan Government will fight against insecurity in hospitals with militia

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Caracas, 13 sep (EFE).-the Minister of Interior and Venezuela justice, Tareck El Aisami, reported today that the militias, also called by the Government of Hugo Chávez as a “people in arms”, team ten public hospitals Caracas from next Friday to ensure the safety of doctors and patients.

“We have selected these ten hospitals because we believe that they have greater influx by users of the metropolitan area,” said El Aissami during a meeting which argued the medical profession and the executive authorities, reported the Venezuelan news agency AVN.

The Bolivarian militia was created in 2005 by presidential decree and is formed by the territorial militia, defined as the “people in arms”, and “bodies combatants”, composed of members of public institutions, universities or companies, as the State Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA).

Each health center will feature a “battalion of militia” that will support the security of these hospitals, indicates AVN, although the deployment of militia will begin this Friday in Hospital El Algodonal, located in the West of Caracas.

The Minister made the comments after several members of the Government, including the Executive Vice President, Elías Jaua, met today with several unions of doctors because of high levels of insecurity that occur in hospitals in the country.

El Aissami urged doctors, managers and community to monitor this safety plan which will also include 450 military officers and other officials of law enforcement in the country.

“Have to send us comments;” “colleagues were trained to make Situational diagnosis, to know which are the hours that there are further influx of people, critical hours and different entries in the hospitals,” added.

He announced that the State is designing a special project in conjunction with the national police to be carried out at the beginning of the next year.

During the meeting, also intervened Chavez through a phone call, and said that his Government would provide “” its full support to the medical profession, “revolutionaries or not”.

“I care that they are serious to address this problem, and it must be in all areas of the country,” said Chavez, who showed his readiness to “turn the page” in the conflictive relationship that have kept these past few months the medical sector and the Government.

Jaua defended the intervention of the militia against “those who always go to oppose” and accuse this organization as repressive or “agents castro-comunistas”.

The recent murder at the end of August, a student of medicine out of the guard time in a hospital in the State of Carabobo raised debate about hospital insecurity to the media, which also led to that atizaran the protests of those who call for more security in medical centers.

Venezuela had a homicide rate in 2010 of 48 persons per 100,000 inhabitants, according to figures from the Government.

The Venezuelan Minister of the Interior and justice, Tareck El Aissami (c), said: “We have selected these ten hospitals because we believe that they have greater influx by users of the metropolitan area”. EFE/file

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Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips

Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips