Keeping the promise: Millennium Development Goals and Targets.Goal 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Target 1 Halve halve tr.v. halved, halv·ing, halves 1. To divide (something) into two equal portions or parts. 2. To lessen or reduce by half: halved the recipe to serve two. 3. , between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day Target 2 Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger Goal 2 Achieve universal primary education [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Target 3 Ensure that by 2015 children everywhere--boys and girls alike--will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling Goal 3 Promote gender equality and empower women [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Target 4 Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and at all levels of education no later than 2015 Goal 4 Reduce child mortality [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Target 5 Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate Goal 5 Improve maternal health Maternal health care is a concept that encompasses preconception, prenatal, and postnatal care. Goals of preconception care can include providing health promotion, screening and interventions for women of reproductive age to reduce risk factors that might affect future pregnancies. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Target 6 Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio maternal mortality ratio Epidemiology The number of pregnancy-related deaths/100,000 live births. Cf Maternal mortality rate. Goal 6 Combat HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome , malaria and other diseases [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Target 7 Halt by 2015 and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS Target 8 Halt by 2015 and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases Goal 7 Ensure environmental sustainability [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Target 9 Integrate the principles of sustainable development Sustainable development is a socio-ecological process characterized by the fulfilment of human needs while maintaining the quality of the natural environment indefinitely. The linkage between environment and development was globally recognized in 1980, when the International Union into country policies and programmes, and reverse the loss of environmental resources Target 10 Halve by 2015 the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. Target 11 Achieve by 2020 a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers Goal 8 Develop a global partnership for development [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Target 12 Develop an open, rule-based, non-discriminatory trading and financial system Target 13 Address the special needs of least developed countries Target 14 Address the special needs of landlocked landlocked adj. referring to a parcel of real property which has no access or egress (entry or exit) to a public street and cannot be reached except by crossing another's property. and small island developing States According to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, small island/developing states (SIDS) are low-lying coastal countries that share similar sustainable development challenges, including small population, limited resources, remoteness, susceptibility Target 15 Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries Target 16 Develop and implement decent and productive work for youth, in cooperation with developing countries Target 17 Provide access, in cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, to affordable essential drugs in developing countries Target 18 Make available, in cooperation with the private sector, the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications technologies |
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