Krishna Giri
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The Millennium Development Goals And some Facts
September 12, 2006 - 05:13 AM
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IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH
Bringing a baby into the world should be a wonderful moment in a woman's life, but not for many, it is a life-threatening event. Worldwide, more than 50 million women suffer from poor reproductive health and serious pregnancy-related illnesses. Many pregnant women living in poverty simply do not have transportation to emergency medical facilities. Goal 5 aims to improve the conditions of mothers giving birth, and to reduce by 75% the number of women who die in childbirth.
More than 500,000 women die from complications of pregnancy and
childbirth every year
99% of maternal deaths from childbirth occur in the developing world
Pregnancy is the leading cause of death for girls ages 15-19 in developing
countries
COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA AND OTHER DISEASES
Imagine your whole community dying of a preventable disease. Every day, seven thousand young people contract HIV/AIDS. HIV/AIDS not only affects the individual, it touches entire communities and countries. As more and more teachers die from HIV/AIDS, children are robbed of an education. Farmers dying of HIV/AIDS are unable to provide enough food for their families and villages, causing more poverty and hunger. Goal 6 aims to stop, and finally reverse, the spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria and other deadly diseases by 2015.
4.8 million people became newly infected with HIV in 2003; that's 13,000
a day!
Malaria causes more than one million deaths each year
There were two million deaths from tuberculosis in 2002
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