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The Millennium Development Goals and Targets
For each of the eight Millennium Development Goals, one or more targets have been set (relative to 1990 levels), most to be met by 2015.
- Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
- By 2015, halve the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day and those who suffer from hunger.
- Achieve Universal Primary Education
- By 2015, ensure that all boys and girls complete primary school.
- Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
- Eliminate gender disparities in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015.
- Reduce Child Mortality
- By 2015, reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five.
- Improve Maternal Health
- By 2015, reduce by three quarters the ratio of women who die during childbirth.
- Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Other Diseases
- By 2015, halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS and the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.
- Ensure Environmental Sustainability
- Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs and reverse the loss of environmental resources.
- By 2015, halve the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water.
- By 2020, achieve 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, and includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction - nationally and internationally.
- Address the special needs of the least developed countries, including tariff- and quota-free access for their exports, enhanced debt relief, and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction.
- Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing states.
- Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt problems.
- Develop 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 - especially information and communications technologies.