International organizations give funds to fight poverty on the short term, but development requires strategies and economic resources on the long term.
The Millennium Project is a consultant team subdivided in work groups, each of which issues recommendations to achieve a Goal, in order to modify development institutions' policies.
Fight against HIV/AIDS group
Governments in the North and international organizations
- Strengthen health systems, encourage participation in communities and get the maximum profit out of the formed personnel.
- Increase economic support in the health sector as well as for AIDS programs to offer the necessary essential services.
- Dynamize research and development of antiretrovirals and the production of generics to guarantee their access.
- Support programs that integrate AIDS and tuberculosis. The combination of these illnesses is devastating and prevention and treatment should be promoted.
Governments in the South
- Combine prevention, expansion of the HIV test and treatment in campaigns to fight against AIDS. They should also be coordinated with birth control and maternal health programs.
- Extend availability of the HIV test and integrate it in the clinic attention routine.
- Increase resources and technical assistance to integrate children that have lost one of their parents to HIV/AIDS in society with the same opportunities as the others.
- Extend coverage of treatment and education in communities to prevent the interruption of treatments. Whenever it's possible, they should be free of charge.
- Avoid the discrimination of AIDS patients and establish precise help policies for these people.
- Create programs to integrate AIDS and tuberculosis, promoting tuberculosis detection tests and the resulting treatment.
Development NGOs
- Extend health services that ensure protection from HIV for women and use education and prevention to counterbalance factors increasing their vulnerability and risk.
- In order to stop the propagation of AIDS, prevention is essential: guarantee access to information about the illness and promote the use of condoms among youngsters.
- Integrate initiatives that fight against AIDS in sexual and reproductive health programs.
Malaria group
Governments in the North and international organizations
- Collaborate with the Global Fund in the fight against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria on a constant basis.
- Promote institutional strengthening, which is the key to be able to analyze public health problems, and plan and manage the appropriate resources.
- Encourage research and development programs of vaccines and efficient treatment.
Governments in the South
- Promote the presence of medical resources in rural communities where there is a high incidence of malaria, through the combination of incentives, legal measures and organizational reforms.
- Include actions to reduce the sanitary, social and economic consequences of malaria in programs that fight against the illness.
- Encourage artemisina-based and others treatments recommended by the WHO in the treatment against malaria. One possible way to achieve it would be through planting Artemisia annua, the plant from which the active ingredient is extracted.
Development NGOs
- Provide material resources such as treated nets, use of insecticides and drugs. The success of these actions depends on the implication of community leaders and health agents.
Tuberculosis group
Governments in the North and international organizations
- Accelerate urgently the research for the development of new diagnosis, drugs and vaccines because most of them are obsolete or are not efficient.
- Support the global alliance to stop Tuberculosis Stop TB Partnership.
Governments in the South
- Include tuberculosis control in primary attention and in poverty reduction programs.
- Ensure the diagnosis, treatment and access to directly observed treatment strategy (DOTS), because it's a standardized tool which has proven its efficiency.
- Take on the multiresistent tuberculosis through the strategies called DOTS-Plus.
- Design common strategies against AIDS and Tuberculosis, given the large number of co-infected people.
Development NGOs
- Support projects that integrate control of Tuberculosis through microscopy services, supply of drugs, surveillance and follow-up systems and use of the DOTS, including patient support.
- " Offer effective diagnosis and treatment protocols in areas with a high prevalence of Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, and multi-resistant Tuberculosis.
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