UN General Assembly
2008

instance, reduce maternal mortality by more than 50 per cent. We could achieve a decrease of 17 per cent in child mortality. We could significantly facilitate access to antiretroviral treatment and to treatment for tuberculosis and malaria. We could, by 2010 have more than 95 per cent of mothers and children sleeping under insecticide-treated mosquito nets. However, in order to achieve those dreams, we are dependent upon an additional funding of $4 per capita a year for the health sector, from now until 2010. Additionally, we need $10 million more for mosquito nets. The $590 million needed to fill the deficit during the next seven years could help us train and employ around 20,000 additional health workers. That amount would raise the number of doctors by 119 per cent, the number of nurses and of mothers with access to health care would rise by 68 per cent. Our dream is to prevent more avoidable deaths. As we have indicated, we cannot realize that dream by ourselves. We need the predictable, substantial and