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Millennium Development Goals

Target 2015

In 2000, world leaders at the UN Millennium Summit created a series of goals to overcome extreme poverty and extend human freedom. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are founded upon democratic governance, rule of law, respect for human rights, and peace and security; theymust bemet by 2015. The goals can be achieved if all the actors work together. Poor countries must govern well and support their people by investing in health care and education. Rich countries must embrace foreign aid, debt relief and fairer trade.















8 Challenges
to change
the world




Eradicate Extreme
Poverty and Hunger




Achieve Universal
Primary Education





Promote Gender Equality
and Empower Women




Reduce
Child Mortality




Improve
Maternal Health




Combat HIV/AIDS,
Malaria and Other
Diseases




Ensure Environmental
Sustainability



Develop a Global
Partnership for
Development

The MDGs are rooted in a simple idea: extreme poverty and gross disparities of opportunity are not inescapable features of the world, but are problems that can be fixed. If we succeed, we will have made a massive leap forward in human development. If we fail to achieve the MDGs, our collective security and prosperity will diminish. The twin issues of clean water and adequate sanitation affect a huge number of other issues. So, we must make sustained progress in both areas to achieve every single MDG.

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Ensure Environmental Sustainability and halve the number of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by 2015.

At least 900 million people need access to water and 1.3 billion need access to sanitation by 2015

The expected reduction in diarrhoea alone would result in a gain of 272 million days of school attendance mostly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

Reducing diarrhoea would gain 3.2 billion working days for people aged 15-59.

Reaching the water and sanitation target would save about 1.7 billion US dollars per year, by cutting the amount spent treating water-borne infectious disease.

Achieving universal access to water and sanitation by 2015, would prevent 2 million people's deaths over the next decade.