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millennium goals Flashcards

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name the 8 millennium goals (eapriced)

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  1. eradicate poverty and hunger
  2. achieve universal primary education
  3. promote gender equality and empower women
  4. reduce child mortality
    5, improve maternal health
  5. combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
  6. ensure environmental sustainability
  7. develop a global partnership for development
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goal 1. eradicate poverty and hunger purpose

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  • reduce proportion of people living on less than US$1 a day
  • achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, incl. women and young people
  • reduce proportion of people suffering from hunger
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goal 2. achieve universal primary education purpose

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  • ensuring all children, boys and girls complete a full course of primary education
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goal 3. promote gender equality and empower women purpose

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  • eliminate gender differences at all levels of education
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goal 4. reduce child mortality purpose

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  • reduce U5MR
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goal 5. improve maternal health purpose

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  • reduce maternal mortality rates

- achieve universal access to reproduction services

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goal 6. combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases purpose

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  • halt and begin reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
  • achieve universal treatment for HIV/AIDs for those who need it
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goal 7. ensure environmental sustainability purpose

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  • incorporate principles of sustainable development into country policies and reverse loss of enviro practices
  • increase access to sage water and sanitation
  • improve lives of slum dwellers
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goal 8. develop a global partnership for development

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  • address special needs of landlocked countries
  • create fair trading policies
  • deal with debt problems
  • affordable medications
  • advance availability to ICT and other technologies
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reasons why goal 1 is important

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  • lack of income leads to lack of resources and infrastructure
  • poverty and hunger reduce immune, increase mortality rates
  • lack of income reduces capacity for a country to develop its economy
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reasons why goal 2 is important

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  • education promotes greater employment - decreases poverty
  • allows children to be educated which helps break poverty cycle
  • health promoting behaviors are also enhanced with literacy
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reasons why goal 3 is important

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  • women need to be able to provide for children & family
  • income provides stability and enables women to help family get education and sustain nutrition
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reasons why goal 4 is important

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  • children often die from easily preventable diseases

- children are the future of the countries society and economy

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reasons why goal 5 is important

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  • maternal mortality rates are high in developing countries
  • if mothers are in good health they can take better care of fame
  • providing access to reproductive health services means that women are better able to take care of themselves and their children through seeking advice and treatment
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reasons why goal 6 is important

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  • simple cost effective methods can reduce risk of contracting
  • HIV reduces impact of individuals to work to provide for their fam
  • thousands of children are orphaned which reduces chance of education and a productive life
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reasons why goal 7 is important

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  • future generations can then provide for themselves and fam
  • biodiversity is essential for future food supplies and income
  • lack of water is responsible for many deaths per year
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reasons why goal 8 is important

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  • there is a lot of potential for developing countries to improve their economies - improving health
  • developed countries have a large part to play in enhancing HHD in developing countries by increasing aid and wiping debt
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what are the millennium goals?

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  • september 2000, leaders came together in UN formalized millennium goals
  • endorsed by 189 countries
  • aimed to reduce extreme poverty by 2015 through MDG’s
  • aim to reduce: poverty, hunger, disease, address lack of adequate shelter, access to health care, promoting gender equality, health, education, and environmental sustainability
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goal 1 targets

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  • target 1: halve between 1990 and 2015, proportion of people whose income is less then 1 a day
  • target 2: achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, incl. women and young people
  • target 3: halve, between 1990 and 2015 proportion of people who suffer from hunger
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goal 2 targets

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target 1: 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 targets

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target 1: eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2015, and in all levels of education by no later then 2015

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goal 4 targets

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target 1: reduce by 2 thirds between 1990 and 2015 the under five mortality rate

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goal 5 targets

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target 1: reduce by 3 quarters between 1990 and 2015 the maternal mortality ratio
target 2: achieve by 2015 universal access to reproductive health

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goal 6 targets

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target 1: have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
target 2: achieve by 2010 universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for those who need it
target 3: halt by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other diseases

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goal 7 targets

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target 1: integrate principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs and reverse the loss of environmental resources
target 2: reduce biodiversity loss, achieving by 2010 a signifiant reduction in the rate of loss
target 3: halve by 2015 the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
target 4: by 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers

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goal 8 targets

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target 1: address the special needs of the least developed countries, land locked and small island developing states
target 2: develop further an open, rule based, predictable, non discriminatory trading and financial system
target 3: deal comphrensivoely with developing countries debt
target 4: in cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
target 5: in cooperation with the private sector, make available benefits of new technologies, especially info and communication

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