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An Index of Progress Towards the MDG 6 in Sub-Saharan Africa: Combat HIV, AIDS and Malaria

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In this article we present a new proposal for measuring progress towards Millennium Development Goal 6 to combat HIV, AIDS and malaria in the context of sub-Saharan Africa; one of the areas of the planet most affected by the AIDS epidemic and malaria. With this aim, we develop a global indicator of fulfilment of this goal. Our index was constructed using the variables defined in the UN Millennium Declaration. To construct the index, we used the P2 distance method and applied it to the year 2007; the last year for which data are available. This index incorporates variables that permit the countries of sub-Saharan Africa to be ordered at territorial scale in terms of the value of the partial indicators. Our indicator constitutes a novel contribution insofar as it was constructed using a large number of variables.

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  1. This is the case of the following three variables: ‘Antiretroviral therapy coverage among people with advanced HIV infection, percentage’ and ‘The proportion of pregnant women who participated in the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT)’ for which data from 2006 were used and ‘Condom use to overall contraceptive use among currently married women 15–49 years old’ and ‘Children under 5 sleeping under insecticide-treated bed nets, percentage’, for which data from 2005 were used.

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Financial support from MEC-2010-17049/ECON is gratefully acknowledged.

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Martín, J.A.R., Fernández, J.A.S. & Pérez, A.J.U. An Index of Progress Towards the MDG 6 in Sub-Saharan Africa: Combat HIV, AIDS and Malaria. Child Ind Res 5, 199–213 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-011-9125-3

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