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;Millennium Development Goals
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# Eight international development goals that 189 United Nations Member States and at least 23 international organizations have agreed to achieve by the year 2015 (WHO 2009).

==Explanation==
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were developed out of the eight chapters of the
United Nations Millennium Declaration, signed in September 2000. The eight goals and 21
targets include:
# Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
#* Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day.
#* Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people.
#* Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.
# Achieve universal primary education
#* Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.
# Promote gender equality and empower women
#* Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 20 15.
# Reduce child mortality
#* Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate.
# Improve maternal health
#* Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio.
#* Achieve, by 20 15, universal access to reproductive health.
# Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
#* Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS.
#* Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it.
#* Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.
# Ensure environmental sustainability
#* Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources.
#* Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss.
#* Halve, by 20 15, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation (for more information see the entry on water supply).
#* By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum-dwellers.
# Develop a global partnership for development.
#* Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory. Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction-nationally and internationally.
#* Address the special needs of the least developed countries. This includes tariff and quota free access for their exports; enhanced programme of debt relief for heavily indebtedoor countries; and cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous officiald evelopment assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction.
#* Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States.
#* Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term.
#* In cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth.
#* In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries.
#* In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, specially information and communications (WHO 2009)

==References==
* WHO (2009) Health impact assessment glossary: E-learning modules

==links==
* [http://apps.who.int/thelexicon/ WHO — The Health and Environment Lexicon]
* [http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ United Nations Millennium Development Goals]

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