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The United Nations Millennium
Development Goals are eight goals that all 191 UN member states have agreed
to try to achieve by the year 2015. The United Nations Millennium
Declaration, signed in September 2000 commits world leaders to combat
poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and
discrimination against women. The MDGs are derived from this Declaration, and
all have specific targets and indicators.
The Eight Millennium Development
Goals are:
1.
to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger;
2.
to achieve universal primary education;
3.
to promote gender equality and empower women;
4.
to reduce child mortality;
5.
to improve maternal health;
6.
to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other
diseases;
7.
to ensure environmental sustainability; and
8.
to develop a global
partnership for development.
The MDGs are inter-dependent;
all the MDG influence health, and health influences all the MDGs. For
example, better health enables children to learn and adults to earn. Gender
equality is essential to the achievement of better health. Reducing poverty,
hunger and environmental degradation positively influences, but also depends
on, better health.
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