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| ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY AND HUNGER |
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| ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION |
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| PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN |
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| COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA AND OTHER DISEASES |
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| ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY |
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| DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT |
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| WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF MDG 1: ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY AND HUNGER? |
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| To reduce the level of poverty within developing countries through development of stratergies to promote employment oppurtunites, particularly for women and young people. |
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| HOW MANY TARGETS DOES MDG 1 HAVE? |
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| WHAT IS THE FIRST TARGET OF MDG 1 |
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| TARGET 1: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than US $1.25 a day. |
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| WHAT IS THE SECOND TARGET FOR MDG 1? |
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| TARGET 2: Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people. |
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| WHAT IS THE THIRD TARGET FOR MDG 1? |
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| TARGET 3: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger. |
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- Poverty has an enormous impact on mortality and morbidity rates of developing countries.
- Poverty impacts on individuals in a wide range of ways:
- Not being able to to purchase the quantity of food needed to sustain life.
- Not being able to access the required health care to treat a prevetable illness
- Not being able to afford shelter to protect individuals and families from danger and extreme environmental conditions
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| WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF MDG 2: ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION |
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| To provide all boys and girls in developing countries with access to primary schooling to improve literacy and numeracy skills. It also offers oppurtunites to gain skills and knowledgable to engage in health promoting behaviours. |
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| HOW MANY TARGETS DOES MDG 2 HAVE? |
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| WHAT IS THE FIRST TARGET OF MDG 2? |
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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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| WHY IS MDG 2 SO IMPORTANT? |
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- Education promotes literacy, which leads to greater employment prospects, increasing income levels
- Improves individuals capacity to access adequate nutrition, shelter and health care, for themselves and their family members.
- Through achieving access to primary school education for all children, oppurtunities for individuals to improve their standard of living
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| WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF MDG 3: PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN? |
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| This goal aims to empower women by increasing oppurtunities for involvement in decision making processes that affect themsleves, their families, their communities and their countries. |
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| HOW MANY TARGETS DO MDG 3 HAVE? |
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| WHAT IS THE FIRST TARGET FOR MDG 3? |
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| TARGET 1: Elimiate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education by no later than 2015. |
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| WHY IS MDG 3 SO IMPORTANT? |
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- Females are generally less likely than males to have access to education. Education has the abiliy to empower women.
- It is important for women, as primary caregivers for families, it is important for women to develop their knowledge about health, and the skills to be able to read health information
- Numeracy and literacy skills taught in schools may assist women in developing a business
- With greater income, women are able to exert more control over their lives and make decisons for themselves and their families.
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| WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF MDG 4: REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY |
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| To reduce number of deaths of children under the age of 5 (U5MR) |
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| HOW MANY TARGETS DOES MDG 4 HAVE? |
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| WHAT IS THE FIRST TARGET OF MDG 4? |
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| TARGET 1: To reduce by 2/3, between 1990 and 2015, the under 5 mortality rate (U5MR) |
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| WHY IS MDG 4 SO IMPORTANT? |
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| As children represent the future, it is the responsibility of the global community, including governments, to promote their health and reduce child mortality rate. |
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| WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF MDG 5: IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH |
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| To improve maternal health, by reducing the number of deaths of women that occur as a result of pregnancy and child birth and to increase the access to the reproductive services |
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| HOW MANY TARGETS DOES MDG 5 HAVE? |
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| WHAT IS THE FIRST TARGET OF MDG 5? |
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| TARGET 1: Reduce by 3/4 of the population between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio. |
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| WHAT IS THE SECOND TARGET OF MDG 5? |
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| TARGET 2: Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health. |
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| WHY IS MDG 5 SO IMPORTANT? |
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- Reducing the risk of complications during child birth and pregnancy reduces maternal mortality rate
- Providing access to reproductive health services means women are better able to take care of themselves and their children through seeking advice and treatment as well as being able to plan the time and spacing of births.
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| WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF MDG 6: COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA AND OTHER DISEASES? |
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| To reduce child mortality and morbidity rates from HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases such as tuberculosis. |
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| HOW MANY TARGETS DOES MDG 6 HAVE? |
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| WHAT IS THE FIRST TARGET FOR MDG 6? |
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| TARGET 1: Have halved by 2012 and begun ti reverse the spread of HIV and AIDS |
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| WHAT IS THE SECOND TARGET OF MDG 6? |
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| TARGET 2: Achieve by 2010 universal treatment fir HIV/AIDS for those who need it. |
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| WHAT IS THE THIRD TARGET FOR MDG 6? |
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| TARGET 3: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of Malaria and other major diseases. |
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| WHY IS MDG 6 SO IMPORTANT? |
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- HIV/AIDS and Malaria contribute globally to burden of disease
- Rates of HIV can be minimised through education and behaviour change
- Malaria is preventable and contributes to burden of disease.
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| WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF MDG 7: ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILTY |
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| To maintain the qualities of the physical environment that are considered important for health and human development to ensure they are sustainable for future generations. |
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| HOW MANY TARGETS DOES MDG 7 HAVE? |
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| WHAT IS THE FIRST TARGET OF MDG 7? |
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| TARGET 1: Integrate principles of sustainable in country policies and programs and reverse the loss of environmental resources |
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| WHAT IS THE SECOND TARGET FOR MDG 7? |
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| TARGET 2: Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss. |
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| WHAT IS THE THIRD TARGET FOR MDG 7? |
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| TARGET 3: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. |
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| WHAT IS THE FOURTH TARGET FOR MDG 7? |
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| TARGET 4: By 2020, have achieved a significant improvementin the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers. |
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| WHY IS MDG 7 SO IMPORTANT? |
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- Achieving environmental sustainabilty means reducing biodiversity loss by balancing the needs of humans with the maintenance of ecosystems upon which human life depends.
- The conditions in which slum dwellers live put them at greater risk of malnutrition , infectious diseases, injury and violence. To improve the situation in which slum dwellers live in, it is important to ensure the stratergies put in place are environmentally sustainable and promote health and human development.
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| WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF MDG 8: DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT |
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| Address the needs of the least developed countries through the provision of official development assistance (ODA) also referred to as aid. |
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| HOW MANY TARGETS ARE THERE FOR MDG 8? |
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| WHAT IS THE FIRST TARGET FOR MDG 8? |
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| TARGET 1: Address the special needs of the least developed countries, land locked countries and small island developing states |
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| WHAT IS THE SECOND TARGET FOR MDG 8? |
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| TARGET 2: Develop further an open, rule based, predictable, non discriminatory trading and financial system |
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| WHAT IS THE THIRD TARGET FOR MDG 8? |
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| TARGET 3: Deal comprohensively with developing countries debt. |
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| WHAT IS THE FOURTH TARGET FOR MDG 8? |
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| TARGET 4: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordiable essential drugs in developing countries |
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| WHAT IS THE FIFTH TARGET FOR MDG 8? |
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| TARGET 5: In cooperation with the private sector, make available benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications |
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| WHY IS MDG 8 SO IMPORTANT? |
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- Through developing global partnerships, developing countires are able to assist developing countries in improving living standards.
- Results in a reduction in morbidity and mortality rates in developing countires.
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