This table presents the eight Millennium Development Goals. Three out of eight goals, eight of the 16 targets and 18 of the 48 indicators relate directly to health. Health is also an important contributor to several other goals. The significance of the MDGs lies in the linkages between them: they are a mutually reinforcing framework to improve overall human development.
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Health targets |
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Health indicators |
| Goal 1: |
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger |
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| Target 1 |
Halve, 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 |
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5. |
Prevalence
of underweight children under five years of age
Proportion of population below minimum level of dietary energy consumption |
| Goal 2: |
Achieve universal primary education |
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| Target 3 |
Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling |
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| Goal 3: |
Promote gender equality and empower women |
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| 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 |
| Target 5 |
Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate |
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14.
15. |
Under-five
mortality rate
Infant mortality rate
Proportion of one-year-old children immunized against measles |
| Goal 5: |
Improve maternal health |
| Target 6 |
Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio |
16.
17. |
Maternal mortality ratio
Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel |
| Goal 6: |
Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases |
| Target 7 |
Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of
HIV/AIDS |
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20. |
HIV prevalence among pregnant women aged 15-24 years
Condom use rate of the contraceptive prevalence rate
Ratio of school attendance of orphans to school attendance of non-orphans aged 10-14 years |
| Target 8 |
Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of
malaria and other major diseases
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24.
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Prevalence and death rates associated with malaria
Proportion of population in malaria-risk areas using effective malaria prevention and treatment measures
Prevalence and death rates associated with tuberculosis
Proportion of tuberculosis cases detected and cured under DOTS |
| Goal 7: |
Ensure environmental sustainability |
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| Target 9 |
Integrate the principles of sustainable development into
country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental
resources |
29. |
Proportion
of population using solid fuels |
| Target 10 |
Halve by 2015 the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking-water and sanitation |
30. |
Proportion of population with sustainable access to an
improved water source, urban and rural |
| Target 11 |
By 2020 to have achieved a significant improvement in the
lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers |
31. |
Proportion of population with access to improved sanitation, urban and rural |
| Goal 8: |
Develop a global partnership for development |
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| Target 12 |
Develop
further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and
financial system |
| Target 13 |
Address
the special needs of the least developed countries |
| Target 14 |
Address
the special needs of landlocked countries and small island developing
states |
| Target 15 |
Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing
countries through national and international measures in order to make
debt sustainable in the long term |
| Target 16 |
In
cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies
for decent and productive work for youth |
| Target 17 |
In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide
access to affordable, essential drugs in developing countries |
46. |
Proportion of population with access to affordable
essential drugs on a sustainable basis |
| Target 18 |
In
cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new
technologies, especially information and communications |
The targets and indicators related to health are shaded in blue.
